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Old Mar 14, 2007 | 7:57 am
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Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much

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.
No it's not - it is quite important. It is just our everyday life experience is 9.8 m/sec^2 and that is only at sea level and also where all the mass/weight conversions are supposedly done.

And for the the mass of mL record, 1 g at 4 degrees C. Water is unique in that its density is a maximum instead of more or less linear function as most other compounds.
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