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Apparatus: Beakers.
Chemicals: Samples of various metals , water.
Procedure: Drop a piece of each of the metal in separate beakers filled with cold water.
Which metal floats on water? Why?

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Calcium floats on water because the bubbles of hydrogen gas produced stick to the surface of calcium.
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