Many say "it depends on the altitude and temperature" but we just assume standard conditions, the air about the same as most people breathe wherever they live.
2006-06-25 13:48:34 · 2 answers · asked by hrdwarehobbyist 2 in Environment
Air at standard temperature and pressure has a density of about 1.2 kg / m^3....
A cubic kilometer of air (1 billion cubic meters) would therefore weight about 1.2 million metric tons. This corresponds to about twice the weight of the largest supertanker, the Jahre Viking (when fully loaded).
2006-06-25 15:17:40 · answer #1 · answered by Ethan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100000 tons x (2000 lbs/ ton) x (lb-mole/29 lbs) x (454 gm-mole/lb mole) x (22.4 liters/gm mole)
If I punched the calculator correctly, that would be about 701 billion liters of air
I think that is about .2 cubic miles of air
So, one cubic mile of air would weigh about 5 million tons.
2006-06-25 13:59:03 · answer #2 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋