Bulk Density of Common Materials
| Common Material | Density (lb/ft3) From/To |
|---|---|
| ABS resin, pellet | 45 – |
| Acetic acid, liquid | 66 – |
| Acetone | 49 – |
| Acrylic resin | 33 – |
| Adipic acid, powder | 45 – |
| Air – atmospheric pressure | 0.0749 |
| Alcohol, methyl | 49 – |
| Alfalfa, ground | 16 – |
| Almonds, shelled | 30 – 35 |
| Alum powder | 50 – |
| Alumina | 60 – |
| Aluminum hydrate | 18 – |
| Aluminum oxide | 60 – 100 |
| Aluminum silicate | 35 – 45 |
| Aluminum, powder | 45 – 80 |
| Aluminum, shavings | 7 – 15 |
| Ammonium nitrate, prill | 45 – 60 |
| Ammonium sulphate | 40 – 58 |
| Apple seed | 32 – |
| Asbestos fibers | 20 – 25 |
| Ash, coal, damp | 45 – 50 |
| Ash, coal, dry | 35 – 45 |
| Asphalt, liquid | 65 – |
| Aviation fuel (jp-4) | 49 – |
| Bakalite, powder | 30 – 40 |
| Baking powder | 40 – 45 |
| Baking soda | 70 – 80 |
| Ball clay | 25 – |
| Bagasse – exiting the final mill | 7.5 – |
| Bagasse – stacked to 2 metre height (moisture = 44%) | 11 – |
| Bark, wood refuse | 10 – 20 |
| Barley, flour | 25 – 30 |
| Barley, ground | 25 – 30 |
| Barley, kernal | 35 – 40 |
| Barley, malted | 31 – |
| Bauxite, crushed | 75 – 85 |
| Beans, caster | 36 – |
| Beans, coffee | 22 – 40 |
| Beans, lima | 45 – |
| Beans, navy | 48 – |
| Beans, soy | 45 – 47 |
| Bentonite, lump | 25 – 40 |
| Bentonite, powder | 50 – 60 |
| Bicarbonate of soda | 41 – |
| Blood, dry | 35 – 45 |
| Bone meal | 55 – 60 |
| Borate of lime | 50 – 70 |
| Borax | 50 – 70 |
| Boric acid powder | 55 – |
| Bran, oat | 25 – |
| Bran, wheat | 15 – 20 |
| Brewers grain | 27 – |
| Brewers grits | 33 – |
| Bronze chips | 30 – 50 |
| Buckwheat | 34 – 42 |
| Buckwheat flour | 40 – |
| Butter | 54 – |
| Buttermilk powder | 25 – 30 |
| Cake mix | 30 – 40 |
| Calcium carbide | 75 – |
| Calcium carbonate | 75 – |
| Calcium oxide | 27 – |
| Cane – whole stick, tangled and tamped down as in a cane transport vehicle | 12.5 – |
| Cane – whole stick, neatly bundled | 25 – |
| Cane – billetted | 22 – |
| Cane – whole stick tangled, but loosely tipped into cane carrier | 10 – |
| Cane – knifed | 18 – |
| Cane – shredded | 20 – |
| Carbide powder | 100 – |
| Carbon black powder | 4 – 25 |
| Carbon black, pellet | 20 – 45 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | – |
| Carbon, granulated, activated | 50 – 60 |
| Carbon, graphite | 40 – |
| Casein powder | 35 – 40 |
| Cashew nuts | 32 – 37 |
| Caster beans | 36 – |
| Cat food | 20 – 25 |
| Cellophane, flocking | 5 – |
| Cellulose acetate | 10 – |
| Cellulose, flocking | 1.5 – 3 |
| Cement powder, portland | 85 – 95 |
| Cement, clinker | 75 – 90 |
| Cereal flake | 12 – |
| Chalk, fine | 70 – 75 |
| Chalk, lump | 85 – 90 |
| Charcoal | 15 – 30 |
| Chromium ore | 135 – |
| Cinders, coal | 40 – 50 |
| Citric acid | 55 – |
| Clay, attapulgus | 55 – |
| Clay, ball | 25 – |
| Clay, bentonite | 51 – |
| Clay, calcined | 80 – |
| Clay, dicalite | 20 – 50 |
| Clay, kaoline | 20 – 60 |
| Clay, sno-brite | 15 – 50 |
| Clay, whitex | 15 – 50 |
| Clinker, cement | 80 – |
| Clinker, coal | 80 – 90 |
| Coal, ground | 40 – |
| Coal, lump | 45 – 55 |
| Coconut, shredded | 20 – 22 |
| Coffee bean, green | 32 – 45 |
| Coffee bean, roasted | 22 – 30 |
| Coffee, ground | 20 – |
| Coke, calcined, petrol | 35 – 45 |
| Copper ore | 135 – |
| Concrete | 140 – 150 |
| Copper oxide | 190 – |
| Cork, ground | 5 – 15 |
| Corn bran | 13 – |
| Corn cob, ground | 35 – |
| Corn, cracked | 35 – 40 |
| Corn, flaked | 6 – |
| Corn, gern | 21 – |
| Corn, gluten | 26 – 33 |
| Corn, grits | 40 – 45 |
| Corn, ground | 30 – 35 |
| Corn, meal | 32 – 40 |
| Corn, starch | 25 – 35 |
| Corn, sugar, liquid | 88 – |
| Corn, sugar, powder | 31 – |
| Corn, whole kernel | 45 – |
| Cotton blossoms | 15 – 25 |
| Cottonseed | 22 – 40 |
| Cottonseed hulls | 12 – |
| Cottonseed meats | 40 – |
| Cottonseed oil | 58 – |
| Cottonseed, meal | 35 – 40 |
| Cream powder | 38 – |
| Cullett, glass | 120 – |
| Dextrin | 50 – 55 |
| Dextrose | 31 – |
| Diatomacaous earth | 11 – 14 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 43 – |
| Diesel fuel | 52 – |
| Dirt, dry | 65 – 80 |
| Distillars grain | 30 – |
| Dog food, IAMS minichunk | 26 – |
| Dolomite, lump | 88 – 99 |
| Dolomite, powdered | 45 – |
| Down, goose | 1 – |
| Ebonite, crushed | 65 – 70 |
| Emery, crushed | 95 – |
| Epsom salt | 40 – 50 |
| Ethanol | 56 – |
| Ethyl ether | 44 – |
| Ethylene glycol | 70 – |
| Expancel microsphere | 0.8 – |
| Farina | 44 – |
| Feathers, goose | 1 – |
| Feed pellets, animal | 32 – 38 |
| Feldspar, ground | 65 – 70 |
| Ferrous sulphate | 50 – 75 |
| Fertilizer, phosphate | 60 – |
| Fish meal | 25 – 40 |
| Flax seed | 40 – 45 |
| Flour, barley | 25 – 30 |
| Flour, corn | 30 – 34 |
| Flour, patent | 20 – |
| Flour, wheat | 30 – 35 |
| Flourospar | 90 – |
| Fluff, poly-fim floc | 1. 5 – 2 |
| Fly ash | 35 – 45 |
| Froot loops, kellogs | 8 – |
| Fullers earth | 35 – 45 |
| Gasoline | 45 – |
| Gelatine, granulated | 32 – |
| Gilsonite | 37 – |
| Glass bead | 120 – |
| Glass cullett crushed | 120 – |
| Gluten, wheat | 30 – 35 |
| Glycerine | 78 – |
| Golf tees | 15 – |
| Graphite, ground | 25 – 30 |
| Grass seed | 10 – 35 |
| Gravel | 75 – 85 |
| Grits, corn | 40 – 45 |
| Grits, rice | 42 – 45 |
| Gun powder | 50 – |
| Gypsum, lump | 90 – 100 |
| Gypsum, powder | 60 – 80 |
| Hay | 5 – 24 |
| HDPE, polethylene | 35 – 40 |
| Hominey | 37 – 50 |
| Hops | 35 – |
| Hops, spent dry | 35 – |
| Hydrochloric acid | 75 – |
| Ice, crushed | 55 – |
| Illmenite, ground | 120 – |
| Iron chips | 165 – |
| Iron ore | 150 – |
| Iron oxide | 180 – |
| Jet fuel, jp4 | 51 – |
| Kafir | 40 – 45 |
| Kalsomine, powder | 32 – |
| Kaoline, crushed | 20 – 22 |
| Kerosene | 51 – |
| Lactose | 32 – |
| LDPE, polyethylene | 35 – |
| Lead oxide | 30 – 150 |
| Liginite | 40 – 55 |
| Lima beans dry | 45 – |
| Lime, hydreated | 25 – 30 |
| Lime, pebble | 55 – 65 |
| Lime, quicklime | 25 – 30 |
| Lime, slaked | 32 – |
| Limestone, crushed | 85 – 95 |
| Limestone, dust | 68 – |
| Linseed oil | 58 – |
| Linseed, kernel | 25 – |
| Maize, kernel | 45 – |
| Malt sugar | 30 – 35 |
| Malt, dry, whole | 30 – 35 |
| Malt, ground, dry | 20 – |
| Malt, spent, damp | 55 – 65 |
| Malt, spent, dry | 10 – |
| Maltodextrin powder | 35 – |
| Maple syrup | 85 – |
| Marble, crushed | 85 – 95 |
| Menthol | 49 – |
| Metal dust | 50 – 120 |
| Methanol | 49 – |
| Methyl alcohol | 49 – |
| Mica | 13 – 30 |
| Milk powder | 15 – 20 |
| Milk sugar | 32 – |
| Miller, ground | 35 – |
| Millet seed | 48 – |
| Mineral oil | 57 – |
| Mineral spirits | 49 – |
| Molybdenum, floc | 10 – 12 |
| Monosodium phosphate | 50 – |
| Muriate of potash | 77 – |
| Mustard seed | 45 – |
| Naphthalene | 56 – |
| Napthalene flakes | 45 – |
| Navy beans, dry | 48 – |
| Nitrate of soda | 68 – |
| Nitric acid | 94 – |
| Nitrocellulose | 25 – |
| Nylon | 35 – 45 |
| Oat flour | 30 – 35 |
| Oat hulls | 8 – 12 |
| Oat meal | 35 – 40 |
| Oat middlings | 35 – 45 |
| Oats | 25 – 35 |
| Oats, bran | 25 – |
| Oats, ground | 25- 30 |
| Oats, rolled | 24 – |
| Octane | 45 – |
| Oil, linseed | 58 – |
| Oil, olive | 57 – |
| Oil, petroleum, crude | 53 – |
| Oil, sperm whale | 57 – |
| Oil, transformer | 55 – |
| Oil, turpentine | 54 – |
| Oxalic acid, crystals | 60 – |
| Oyster shells, ground | 53 – |
| Paper, shreaded | 5 – 12 |
| Paraffin wax | 45 – |
| PC, polycarbonate | 34 – 36 |
| Peanut shell refuse | 4 – |
| Peanuts, shelled | 35 – 45 |
| Peanuts, unshelled | 15 – 24 |
| Peas, dry | 45 – 50 |
| Peat | 25 – 50 |
| Perlite, expanded | 3 – |
| Perlite, expanded | 51 – |
| Phosphate rock, crushed | 60 – 80 |
| Phosphate sand | 90 – 100 |
| Plaster of Paris | 50 – 55 |
| Plastic pellet | 34 – 48 |
| Ployethylene, pellet | 34 – 36 |
| Ployvinyl chloride, powder | 30 – |
| Polyethylene pellet | 35 – 37 |
| Polypropylene powder | 25 – |
| Polypropylene, pellet | 34 – 36 |
| Polystyrene, expanded beads | 1.5 – |
| Polystyrene, pellet | 34 – 36 |
| Polyvinyl chloride, pellet | 48 – 52 |
| Popcorn, popped | 2/3/2019 |
| Popcorn, shelled | 45 – 50 |
| Potash | 50 – 60 |
| Potasium chloride | 2 – 3 |
| Potassium carbonate | 45 – 50 |
| Potassium chloride | 75 – |
| Potassium nitrate | 76 – |
| Potassium sulphate | 42 – 48 |
| Potato flake | 12 – |
| Potato starch | 40 – |
| Pumice | 40 – 45 |
| PVC polyvinyl chloride | 48 – 52 |
| Quartz, sand | 80 – 100 |
| Rape seed | 45 – 50 |
| Rice | 45 – 50 |
| Rice bran | 20 – |
| Rice flour | 30 – |
| Rice grits | 42 – 45 |
| Rubber, ground | 25 – 50 |
| Rye | 44 – |
| Rye, flour | 30 – |
| Salt, coarse crushed | 45 – 55 |
| Salt, granulated | 70 – 80 |
| Saltpeter | 75 – |
| Sand, damp | 100 – |
| Sand, dry | 80 – 100 |
| Sand, loose | 90 – |
| Sand with gravel, dry | 108 – |
| Sand with gravel, wet | 125 – |
| Sand, rammed | 105 – |
| Sand, silica | 95 – |
| Sand, water filled | 120 – |
| Sand, wet | 120 – |
| Sand, wet, packed | 130 – |
| Sandstone, crushed | 80 – 95 |
| Sawdust | 4 -12 |
| Sea water | 64 – |
| Semolina | 35 – 40 |
| Sesame seed | 27 – 37 |
| Shellac powder | 30 – 35 |
| Silica flour | 35 – 40 |
| Silica gel | 30 – 45 |
| Silica sand | 95 – |
| Slag, furnace | 60 – |
| Slakes lime | 32 – |
| Slate, crushed | 80 – 90 |
| Soap powder | 20 – 25 |
| Soda ash | 30 – 45 |
| Sodium bicarbonate | 41 – |
| Sodium chloride | 70 – |
| Sodium hydroxide, flake | 47 – |
| Sodium nitrate | 68 – 80 |
| Sodium sulphate | 80 – |
| Sorghum seed | 42 – 50 |
| Soybean flour | 27 – 35 |
| Soybean hulls | 6 – |
| Soybean meal | 36 – 50 |
| Soybean, flakes | 18 – 25 |
| Soybean, whole | 47 – |
| Soybeean, cracked | 35 – |
| Spelt flour | 25 – 30 |
| Starch powder | 25 – 35 |
| Steel, chips | 150 – |
| Sucrose – crystal | 99 – |
| Sucrose – amorphous | 94 – |
| Sugar, brown | 45 – |
| Sugar, dextrose, powder | 50 – |
| Sugar, granulated | 53 – |
| Sugar, milk | 32 – |
| Sugar, powdered | 50 – 60 |
| Sugar, raw | 55 – 65 |
| Sulfuric acid | 112 – |
| Sulphur, crushed | 55 – 70 |
| Sunflower seed | 36 – |
| Talcum powder | 4 – 62 |
| Tar | 72 – |
| Tea leaves | 12 – |
| Terephalic acid powder | 45 – |
| Timothy seed | 36 – |
| Tin oxide | 100 – |
| Titanium dioxide | 40 – 50 |
| Tobacco, flake | 2 – 5 |
| Toulene | 54 – |
| Transmission oil | 54 – |
| Trisodium phosphate | 50 – 60 |
| Urea, prill | 34 – 42 |
| Vermiculite ore | 80 – |
| Vermiculite, expanded | 17 – |
| Walnut meats | 25 – |
| Walnut shells, ground | 40 – 45 |
| Water | 62 – |
| Wax | 15 – 20 |
| Wheat bran | 12 – |
| Wheat gluten | 30 – 35 |
| Wheat, craked | 35 – 45 |
| Wheat, flaked | 7 – 10 |
| Wheat, flour | 30 – 35 |
| Wheat, ground | 40 – |
| Wheat, whole kernel | 45 – 55 |
| Whey powder | 35 – 46 |
| Wood chips | 20 – 30 |
| Wood flour | 15 – 25 |
| Wood shavings | 3 – 10 |
| Xanthum gum | 48 – |
| Zinc ore | 125 – |
| Zinc oxide | 10 – 30 |
| Zinc, calcined, crushed | 70 – 90 |