Think about it.\n\nWhich is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
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they are both a pound so they weigh the same
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What is the context? Is it possible that he means *tertiary*, which refers to a third thing ... as in primary, secondary, tertiary?\n\n(prounounced tersheeairy)\n\nThere is also TERTIAL which refers to a particular set of feathers on a bird's wing.
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The feather is wider and has to push a larger amount of air out of its way while falling, which requires more force. The faster the feather falls, the faster the air has to get out of the way, which means it has to be accelerated away, via F=ma. At some point, the force required to accelerate this air out of the feather's way balances the force of gravity. The same happens for the pebble, but since it's smaller, a smaller amount of air has to be accelerated, so the force is small until the pebble is falling so fast that air has to be accelerated out of its way very quickly (large a) and so it also reaches a terminal velocity, but a faster one.
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They both equal a ton!
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And I see that you are no exception, as you HAVE confused them!!\n\nIn the S.I. system, mass is kg, and weight is N (that is Newtons)\n\nIn the Imperial system, mass is slugs and weight is pounds.\n\n1 slug is equal to 14.6 kg.\n1 lb. is qual to 4.5 N\n\nPeople generally confuse them because the authorities decided  to equate 1 kg to 2.2 lb.  Not that it makes that much of a difference if these are used for commercial and not technical/scientific purposes, since gravity is basically the same at all habitable places on Earth.
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By unit volume, probably dry cement is heavier. Why? Because rocks are heavier than water.
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A pound of butter would weigh more than a pound note (Money)
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One pound of feathers is more than one pound of gold because the "pound" unit is different. The most commonly used system of weights in the US and Great Britain is the avoirdupois system, where 1 pound = 16 ounces. This is used for most solid objects, except for precious metals and gems; gold is weighed by a special system, called the troy system, where one troy pound = 12 troy ounces. Where one avoirdupois ounce is 28.35 grams, one troy ounce is about 31.10 grams. To convert from avoirdupois pounds to troy pounds, multiply the first by 1.2152 to get its equivalent in troy measurement. Therefore, one "pound" of feathers in troy weight is actually 1.2152 pounds (one avoirdupois pound), compared to one troy pound of gold. And the feathers win.\n\nOr in monetary terms, 1 £ won't buy you a lot of gold, it will buy a lot of feathers...
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and the question is...
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A soul is an intangible, spiritual being.  I too believe that our pets have souls, but how can a soul weigh something if it is your deepest emotions and values?
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You think you have an exaulting presence, don't you.  The answer is YOU weigh, Feathers.
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Mass is a fundamental quality. No matter where something is, it has the same mass. Weight, on the other hand, is the force that gravity exerts on the mass. Though in standard units we measure both in pounds, technically mass is measured in pounds mass, while weight is measured in pounds force. In SI units, mass is measured in grams, and weight in newtons.\n\nTo answer your question, weight will change with distance from the earth's center. Mass will not.
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ONE,Part of life\nTWO,Both ways is correct because it is as follows of a zebra\nTHREE,NONE.coz fox has no feather.they have FUR.
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I have heard this, but only a few ounces at most.\nCan that claim be substantiated?\nOr, in fact, does the soul/spirit not have any weight since it does not have mass?
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reverie's wrong.  Most mass actually comes from kinetic energy, not rest mass.  you can correcly give energy (including heat energy) the same units as mass so it makes sense to say "one pound of heat"... but force is something different entirely.
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This is too freaky. A problem that goes out of its way to EMPHASIZE weight not mass would give the weight in Newtons. Gram is a unit of mass, not weight.
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Weigh the whole bag.\n\nWhat items "represent" the bag?\n\nWhere does it say you can't weight the whole bag, except in your tirade afterthought?