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Hollywood hit men have taught us concrete galoshes will sink a body. University of Alabama at Birmingham engineering students are learning that concrete also can be used to keep a body afloat. “Water has a specific gravity of one, and as long as the specific gravity of the concrete is less than one, it will float,” says Ethan Parker, a senior in the UAB School of Engineering. “It is a simple equation.” Parker and his colleagues, members of the UAB chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers, (Read Full Article)