Post #1834891
2026-05-01 01:34 UTC
how you can keep 13 tonnes of an incredibly dense object in an apartment
Gold’s density is 19320 kg/m^3.
19320 / 13000 = 1.486 m^3
Round it up to 2 m^3 since gold bars don’t stack perfectly.
So basically a bathroom or walk in closet can store it. And people like this tend not to give a shit about silly things like “safety” or “structural load.”
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@jdr@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 15:08
You don’t need an online converter to multiply by 10. (g is more like 9.81m/s² but accuracy is for nerds)
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@xthexder@l.sw0.com 2026-05-01 19:06
Unless they’re on the ground floor, there’s a lot more to consider than just the compressive strength of concrete. If the gold is sitting on a concrete beam, it bends, causing the bottom to be in tension, while the top is in compression. Concrete has really terrible tensile strength, so rebar is installed to keep it together. The load limit of a concrete beam will be significantly less than that of a solid concrete pillar, and depends on the engineering design.