have weight
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Water weighs the same whether in liquid or vapor form, so if the oceans boiled away, the atmospheric pressure of the water would still be 300 bars.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Water weighs 62 1/2 pounds per cubic foot.
From Aeroplanes by Zerbe, James Slough
Water weighs a great deal; is fearfully inert, or at least feels so; and has a bad habit of promptly slopping in again.
From Gold by White, Stewart Edward
Water weighs 8.355 lbs. per gallon, hence 190 × 8.355 = 23 gallons of water per cubic yard of 1-3-6 concrete.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
Water weighs a great deal more than air—over 800 times as much—and so grinds faster with its tools of pebbles and sand.
From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hawksworth, Hallam
