• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Kilograms are most definitely a measure of weight. Every time you put something on a scale with kilos on it, you’re measuring its weight in kilogram force and inferring its mass from there.

    If someone says something weighs a certain number of kilograms, the force part is implied

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      Technically it’s not, practically it is beacuse we all live on constant gravity. Except in planes and jets funnilly enough because sudden and great acceleration do make things inside the plane weigh more or less even if their mass is the same.