the original definition of a gram

[BelovedNL]

*at 4°C and 1 bar of atmospheric pressure

[backupaccount]

The 1 person to ever buy these scales off Amazon with no criminal intent

[lozoft]

You wouldn't believe my satisfaction and relief as a first-year chemistry student when I realized that 1g = 1cm3 = 1mL of water. It was at that exact moment that I as an American was sold on the metric system lol

[nassah]

One Calorie (cal) is also the energy Used to heat up one cubic cm (cm³) of water by 1 degree

[harrywilliams]

Until drug dealers come along and 1g becomes 0.7g lol

[Marco_My_Words]

The metric system just makes sense like that.

[zerg]

Police : what are these scales for?
Steve : weighing out measures of precisely one gram
Lawyers phone : **rings**

[shaba]

Yeah, yeah. And 1 Newton force accelerates 1 kg mass to 1 m/s velocity in 1 second.
1 Newton force applied on 1 meter distance equals 1 Joule of energy. Thats the same 1 Joule energy, that 1 Watt power generates in 1 second, or when 1 Ampere current flows on 1 Ohm resistance for 1 second.
Metric system units are constructed and engineered as a SYSTEM.

[cadekachelmeier]

Also, a cubic meter of water weighs 1 metric ton (1000kg). That's a handy estimate to have as well.

[Israfel]

It's very satisfying when there are literal definitions to things-- like this.

[phonkey]

I always liked this quote by Josh Bazell:

"In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself, ’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities."

[sebschuth]

Hey, don't forget that 1 cubic meter (of water) weighs A (metric) TONNE! Could crush you. In fact, that is (one of the reasons) why tsunamis are absolutely dangerous.

In parenthesis the edits from YouTube comments. Hope you are happy 😊

[TiffMarche]

I live in the US, and when I learned this in 8th grade science class, it was the most startlingly obvious display of why so much of the world uses metric.

[HEARTLESSKAMUI]

Every day the metric system just keeps making more and more sense to me. As an American, I will never understand why we use such strange units of measurement.

[MaxMayDismay]

So you're telling me... the metric system is based on rules that make sense?

[Lord_eBatts]

Metric made my chemistry class that much easier

[noahpfi]

Americans been real quiet since this dropped

[limit.infinity]

I'd love to see an American explain the connection between miles and gallons

[sodaaccount]

First time seeing a legal substance being weighed on those scales...
EDIT: Thanks fellow "druggies", this is now my most liked/responded to comment 🤣

[madeline]

What a crazy thing that units make sense