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I have recently picked up a 5 gallon bucket of cement and I can assure you that it did not weigh 131 pounds. My guess is that the 26.71 calculation is for a 1 gallon solid piece of cement (e.g., a 1 gallon clinker). I'm also guessing that the question is referring to ground cement, which is a powder. Powdered cement is a particulate and therefore has a significant amount of air due to particle packing. Calculating the weight of a powder from volume is much more difficult than just using density. If you want to know what a gallon of cement weighs, the easiest way will be to use a scale.

Portland Cement has a specific gravity of 3.15. Water weighs 8.34 pounds per gallon, and so the problem set up to determine the weight of one gallon of Portland Cement is as follows:

8.34 x 3.15 = 26.271 pounds Other brands and/or types of cements have different specific gravities. Visit the following Web address to view a list of the specific gravities for certain substances:

http://www.reade.com/Particle_Briefings/spec_gra2.html

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One gallon of cement weighs approximately 12.6 pounds. Therefore, 2 gallons of cement would weigh around 25.2 pounds.

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