2 Liters of Cooking Oil when Weighed Not Even 2 Kilograms? Here’s the explanation Page all

KOMPAS.com – A screenshot of someone complaining about a price subsidy cooking oil does not match the quality of the oil that is getting viral on social media and on the WhatsApp message sharing application.

The screenshots circulating show the existence of a brand of 2 liter packaged cooking oil which when placed on the scale weighs less than 2 kilograms or only 1,848 kg.

“The price makes you cry, the contents make you suck. In fact, oil subsidies cannot be enjoyed by everyone,” says the narration in the screenshot.

One of the accounts that shared the viral screenshot was the @warstek_com account.

“Just yesterday we talked about the importance of units, it turns out that something happened earlier xixi. In the end, it’s a bad idea to keep going to the government. If you find something like this again, please help educate politely, all of you Warstekholic!

Oh yes, why is it that about 2 liters of oil when weighed and even 1.8 kg? does anyone know write in the comment field! ” connect the account.

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So what is the answer to the question why 2 liters of cooking oil doesn’t even weigh 2 kilograms when weighed?

Liter itself is the official unit for the unit of volume. Liquids, or solids being liquefied, use this measure. The kilogram is the unit used to measure the mass of an object.

So if we want to measure from liters to kilograms, we can’t directly convert volume units to kilograms.

In order for the unit of volume to be converted to a unit of weight, it takes another quantity that relates the two, namely density.

Density is a constant possessed by every object whether solid, liquid or gas. To calculate density, it is mass divided by volume.

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Lecturer of the Department of Physics at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Dr. Edi Suharyadi, M.Eng, stated that the density of water is 0.997 which when rounded up becomes 1 in kilograms or liters. So when 1 liter of water is weighed, it weighs 1 kilogram.

But it’s different with oil. When contacted by Kompas.com, Tuesday (1/2/2022), Edi explained that the density of cooking oil is not the same as the density of water. Mass of oil type fry is about 0.9.

So, if there is a volume of oil of 2 liters the mass or weight of cooking oil is 1.8 kilograms, not round to 2 kilograms.

“If there is a volume of 2 liters of oil, it means the mass of oil = 1.8 kg,” said Edi to Kompas.com.

So when people find cooking oil packaged in 2 liters but it weighs less than 2 kilograms, it is a very natural thing.

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