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What is a relative density?

What is a relative density? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sciences) A measure of the density of a material. The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of water at the same temperature. It is dimensionless and therefore has no units.
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Recent debate has considered the relative density of trees within these primeval woods or wildwoods.
No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction.
Peak and relative density counts were combined to arrive at density estimates for each species in each year at each blind.
I used relative basal area as a measure of importance, because that value is less influenced by differences in sampling procedure than is relative density.
We used seedling density values to calculate the relative density of each species.
To apply this test, the relative density or specific gravity of the sample must be determined.

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