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Martina has a sample of an unknown substance. She measures the substance. Its mass is 13.5 grams, and its volume is 5 cm3. Which metal might her sample be made of?

Martina has a sample of an unknown substance. She measures the substance. Its mass-example-1
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Sometimes it is possible to identify a metal by its density, which in this case is 13.5 g/5cm3 = 2.7 g/cm3. If you look up a list of metals and the associated densities, you will find that this metal is likely to be aluminum (Al).
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Aluminum:) and it needs my thing to be “at least 20 characters long” so i js wrote that so i can submit it
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