Density

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Just noticed this beauty on a Chinese website:
Unit Type:
piecePackage Weight:
1.000kg (2.20lb.)Package Size:
1cm x 1cm x 1cm (0.39in x 0.39in x 0.39in)
What are they packing it in, material from a black hole?It's only an 8 pin IC.It doesn't inspire much confidence in the seller.

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They reserve the right to package it in something...
Sometimes I see listings on eBay for electronics and the seller says really bizarre things about the item, and then I look to see what other stuff they are selling and find out along with IC's and boards they are selling lingerie, flint rods on paracord lanyards, and all kinds of other crap. Then I realize they have no idea what the electronic items they are selling even do. And then there is also the language barrier.

Hey that reminds me of a story. When I used to work for Radio Shack years ago, I would receive our weekly shipment from the warehouse. Evidently they saved money by not having dumpster service at the warehouse because among the packing material was hamburger wrappers, empty (thankfully) styro drink cups, paper towels, and other garbage. Sometimes in a shipment of 9 or 10 boxes, one of the boxes had nothing but trash. They would ship this stuff across the country to my store, and paid good prices for freight service.

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Being Radio Shack it must have been hard to work out which was supposed to be stock and which was supposed to be binned!

Weedpharma

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dmjlambert:
They reserve the right to package it in something...

Yes, but what? What has a density of 1000 times that of water?
Even Osmium and Iridium, two of the densest elements, only have densities of around 22g/cm3 .

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It's due to the efficiency of Chinese mass production, Henry. They manufacture these things and store them in such quantities that the gravitational pull to the center causes fusion to develop, eventually the entire stock goes supernova (like the recent occurrence in Beijing), and then the products collapse in on themselves forming superdense packages that are easier to ship.

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Chagrin:
It's due to the efficiency of Chinese mass production, Henry. They manufacture these things and store them in such quantities that the gravitational pull to the center causes fusion to develop, eventually the entire stock goes supernova (like the recent occurrence in Beijing), and then the products collapse in on themselves forming superdense packages that are easier to ship.

So, in the superdense package I receive, can I expect to get a thousand 8 pin ICs or just one 8000 pin IC?