Why is steel denser than water but yet steel ships float?

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alienium · Answer

it doesn't have to do with density ;)
it's about the actual construction of the ships
ever heard of Archimedi's law ?
that's why they ship...
no matter how much weight you put on a ship or how much it actually waits, it all has to do with pressure. If gravity + weight and other 'down vectors' are greater then the archimedi's force calculated for that weight... then the ship drowns, otherwise it floats

ookawaiioo · Answer

LOL 

Its called bouyancy.  the water pushed up on all the surface area of the steel that is under water. The water displaced = volume of the steel

alienium · Answer

^ that put simple... thanx Kawaii ;)

ookawaiioo · Answer

Yeah no problem!!