Steel sinks in water but a steel boat floats. Why ?

The density of the steel is more than the density of the  water, so it sinks while the ship is hollow and contains the lot of air in it that make its average density less than the density of the water. That's why the ship floats on the water.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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