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== [[Literature]] ==
* Invoked in ''Sharpe's Siege'' by Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe and his confederates are accused of stealing the Imperial treasury of France (they didn't). [[The Lancer|Captain]] [[The Captain|Frederickson]] points out that the court is accusing them of removing four tons of gold, in small wooden boats, whilst under enemy fire. However, this defense doesn't work, because of the [[Miles Gloriosus|arrogant]], [[
* In an ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' story, the density of gold was used to prove that the supposed gold ingots were really just bricks spray-painted gold, as there is no way a kid could lift a brick-sized bar of gold with one hand. Although if you're dumb enough to confused a spray-painted brick for real gold...
* In the [[Honorverse]] books it was initially played straight, despite [[David Weber]] [[Shown Their Work|getting quite a bit else right]]. Once fans started pointing out the absurdly low density (on par with cigar smoke) with the largest ships, the numbers were fixed.
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