ELi5 How come increasing volume doesn’t affect mass?

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How come increasing volume doesn’t affect mass?
So I understand mass isn’t weight, mass is the amount of matter in an object

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Volume is just the amount of space that something takes up. On its own, it has nothing to do with mass. Increasing volume without increasing mass means that the same amount of matter is spread out over more space—in other words, the *density* decreases.

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