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Old Mar 13, 2007 | 10:40 am
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[QUOTE=FliesWay2Much;7394099]
Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much View Post
Let's not confuse them, folks...

The whole metric thing was based on 1cc of distilled water weighing 1mg and occupying 1ml of volume.[/QUOTE]

My bad -- I typed too fast last night. It's 1 gram of weight -- not 1mg
As I was corrected by Yaatri, its 1 gram of mass. But as I posted earlier, the difference between mass and weight on earth (near sea-level) is semantic.
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