Why are liquids not mostly measured in weight or mass?
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Liquids have very different densities. It’s easier to make a standard sized volume container than it is to make a standard weight container. Going back to more primitive times, weighing things was far harder than saying “Fill up this bucket”. Even things like grain and vegetables were done like that–the bushel and peck are volume units. Nowadays it does let us standardize containers, but it’s mostly cultural inertia. Kind of like how people in metric will say their weight in kilograms, or as a more extreme example how we say sunset and sunrise as though it’s the Earth that’s moving.
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