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Is a gallon a mass or a weight?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019


The answer to your question is: No.

The gallon is a unit of volume.
A gallon can have different masses, depending on what's in it.
And if the gallon is empty, then it has no mass at all.

Weight depends on the mass and the acceleration of gravity where the mass is.
The same mass doesn't even always have the same weight.

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