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An ice hockey puck weighs about 170 grams

It is a vulcanised rubber disc 76 millimetres across and 25 millimetres thick The puck is frozen before games so it slides rather than bounces. It can travel faster than 170 kilometres an hour off a slapshot. The disc shape keeps it flat on the ice, and the rim is sometimes grooved for grip. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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International Ice Hockey Federation

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An ice hockey puck weighs about 170 grams: the short answers

Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It is a vulcanised rubber disc 76 millimetres across and 25 millimetres thick. The figure is taken from International Ice Hockey Federation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.