: how do you measure time with sand ?

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How do people who make hourglasses know how much sand to put in for the amount of time they want ?

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You can test it or you can make engineering math pretending that sand is a liquid with some fairly high factor of viscosity. Someone here will know how to explain that better than I ever could, but some solids can behave similarly to liquids if you use the proper comparison methods.

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