This picture shows 200 kernels of popcorn in a 1000 mL graduated cylinder and 200 pieces of popped popcorn in another. Popped popcorn typically fills about 40 times the space it did when it was just a ...

Most rain gauges just use a graduated cylinder to capture water as it falls from the sky. That will give you a reasonably accurate measure of how much it rained, but it tells you nothing about how ...

When the water is heated, the level moves up slightly in the graduated cylinder. The molecules in cold water move slower and are a little closer together. When the water is cooled, the level moves ...