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I think i get it now. Thanks.

Cool. So you may or may not know the answer to this next one but... I used to work at a pharmaceutical company and we would often "weigh out" raw materials or large tanks full of product. The scales used grams as the unit of measure whether it was grams, kilograms, micrograms, milligrams, etc...

Ok so I've asked my physics teacher and a statics teacher as well and I couldn't get a straight answer from either. So here's my questions... Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the gram a unit of mass? Not weight? I thought that for mass to become a unit of weight, it has to have to...