How much pressure is there at the bottom of the Marinas trench?

[Masonthomas]

If I had 3 1 foot cubes of steel aluminium and gold would the pressure alter the state of any of these cubes? If so how much by?

[ChuckFickens]

About 1100 bar (or about 8-9 tons per square inch)

If your cubes where solid I can't see there being any change in them as they pressure would be equal from all sides and you can't generally compress solid objects.

[mibn2cweus]

Bulk modulus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_modulus

Pressure at 11000 metres (deepest ocean) 0.1086Gpa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench

Resulting decrease in volume / increase in density (less than one percent)

Gold (180Gpa) ~ 0.06%
Steel (160Gpa) ~ 0.068%
Aluminum (76Gpa) ~ 0.143%

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[AlBags]

^ Well that last part is particularly reassuring. Thanks.

[mibn2cweus]

Basically it all amounts to a (self)-educated guess derived from research to satisfy my own curiosity, posted in the hope it might contain some information of interest to someone else.
A word of advise to anyone predisposed to simply take my word of it; be afraid . . . be very afraid! ;o)

[DTCwordfan]

So Masonthomas, your gold bars should be ok if you bury them under your new house.....