Can honey weigh more than peanut butter?

[HappyGrace]

I have an old peanut butter plastic container that says 9 pounds. But now I used it for honey, and weighed it, and it is 12 pounds! Is my scale off or is that possible? (The tare of the container is .63)

 

I am probably showing some kind of horrible ignorance here about density or volume or some such thing. :blushing:

 

Thanks!

[MeganW]

I think they can weigh different things. Consider a container full of feathers vs. the same container full of sand. Same size but different weights.

[happymomofboys]

I have an old peanut butter plastic container that says 9 pounds. But now I used it for honey, and weighed it, and it is 12 pounds! Is my scale off or is that possible? (The tare of the container is .63)

 

I am probably showing some kind of horrible ignorance here about density or volume or some such thing. :blushing:

 

Thanks!

 

9 lbs. of honey weighs the same as 9 lbs. of peanut butter. They both weigh 9 lbs. However, the container contained a certain volume of peanut butter which happened to equal 9lbs. of weight. The same volume of honey has a higher weight.

[alpidarkomama]

Peanut butter has a lot more air whipped into it. Honey is much denser.

[HappyGrace]

Thanks-I clearly need to get a good science curriculum-for *myself*!

 

Also I should have clarified that it was all natural PB, so just ground up peanuts. I was thinking it would somehow be heavier than a liquid, but I guess not!