Need to convert road salt from tons to yards?

Answer 1

Dry sand has a density of 100 pounds/cubic foot (I would think this would apply to salt)

1 ton = 2000 pounds
2000 pounds / 100 pounds/cubic foot = 20 cubic foot
20 cubic foot / 27 = 0.74 cubic yard

So 1 ton is about 3/4 of a cubic yard

Hope this helps :-)

Answer 2

Tons To Yards Conversion

Answer 3

In the construction industry, a cubic yard is usually just called "a yard".
Granulated salt (table salt) according to my reference book weighs about 48 lbs/cu. ft.
Table salt would then weigh about 48 x 27 = 1296 lbs/cu.yd. or ,648 tons/cu. yd. One ton would be about 1.5 cu. yds.
Grains of road salt are larger however. So there might be more air space in a given volume. One ton might be a little more than 1 1/2 yards.
Best I can do.

Answer 4

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cubic yards are units of volume and tons are most of the time units of weight. For example if we consider a ton to be equal to 2200 lbs and one cubic yard of water having about 7645 liter of water in it at 2.2lbs each that would be for water about 1682lbs. So when we divide 2200 by 1682 we find out for water that one ton of water will correspond to about 1.3 cubic yards. So the lighter the product the bigger the number.Does that answer your question?

Answer 5

Yards used in this context means cubic yards. Road salt is usually CaCl, which is hygroscopic. Its density varies from 0.835 g/cm3, dihydrate to 2.15 g/cm3, anhydrous. The conversion goes like this:
(2.15 g/cm^3)(1 lb/453.6 g)(1 T/2,000 lb)(2.54 cm/in)^3(36 in/1 yd)^3. Using ρ for density,
0.70371 T/yd^3 ≤ ρ ≤ 1.81194 T/yd^3
Inverting these, you have
0.55189 yd^3/T ≤ v ≤ 1.42106 yd^3/T

Answer 6

But Tons is a measure of weight, and Yards is a measure of distance. One does not accumulate to become the other no matter how much it increases.

Answer 7

not possible...tons is a measure of weight, and yards is a measure of length

Answer 8

yes