Dictionary of Environmental Health
One of the standards of physics.
It is attributed to Archimedes, a Greek philosopher who is alleged to have discovered it in Sicily in the 3rd century BC. The principle is generally rendered as ‘When a body is wholly or partially immersed in a fluid its apparent loss in weight is equal to the weight of the fluid that it displaces.’ Thus a body that is floating is one that has displaced its own weight.
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