Help!! Lab quiz coming up..probably easy but can't find answer in book

[Guest amnj]

This is probably an easy question but I can't seem to find the answer. How did the units of volume and water lead to the basic unit of mass?

[blike]

Have you tried google?

[blike]

From wikipedia: The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one liter of pure water at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius and standard atmospheric pressure.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram

[Guest amnj]

Yes I did try google and came up with nothing useful. Thank you for your help.

[agaubr]

The conversion you seek is density which is mass per unit volume so it converts mass (g) to volume and volume to mass.

 

Ag