Does the kilograme only exists in France?
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The object which is used as a standard for the kilogram is indeed kept in France.  But that is only the standard for comparison, anyone can use the unit of mass called the "kilogram."
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Don't know about that, but the definitive "metre" is stored in Paris.\n\nThe meter is one of a set of units known as "Systeme International" (French for 'International System), or SI Units.\n\nThe originals are in Paris, with validated equavelents in most  developed countries for use in calibration.
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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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A litre of water at standard temperature and pressure in the latitude and longitude of Paris weighs one kilogram.
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some background:\n1866\n    The use of the metric system made legal (but not mandatory) in the United States by the (Kasson) Metric Act of 1866 (Public Law 39-183). This law also made it unlawful to refuse to trade or deal in metric quantities.\n1893\n    ..... metric prototypes were declared "fundamental standards of length and mass" in the Mendenhall Order. Since that date, the yard, pound, etc. have been officially defined in terms of the metric system.\n\nThis timeline, and more, can be found at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm\n\nOur common units of miles, pounds and degrees fahrenheit are defined metricly. But still it's not how we in the U.S. think.\n\nWikipedia says:\n"Only France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan have seen significant popular opposition to metrication, the main objections being based on tradition, aesthetics, economical impact and distaste for measures viewed as foreign."\n\nIt's the imp of the perverse.
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I think the simple answer is because they can't be bothered.\n\nThey have grown up using inches and feet and miles etc and learning a whole new set of units is too much effort.\n\nIn the UK we have been undergoing a process of changeover since the 1830s or so.  Metric units had to be used in schools from the 1950s but still old people use imperial.  The majority of people know about metric but don't use it enough to get used to it.  I have never met anyone who actually knows their weight in Kg.
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I live in France and i can tell you that they don't...it is a British celebration.
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france has a military?
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That depends if you think imperial measurements are better, I like metrication, and so no they did not have enough power, they took to long and faile to achieve there goal, I am still 6' and not 183cm people still think in LBS and not Kilos, and we still buy in pints well at  least in the Pub, if not at the supermarket.\nI wonder if it will change, but even my kids think in feet and inches and they have never been taught it?
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U can a measure the mass of an object accurately using a Physical Balance.\nUnit of mass is kg in SI unit ysstem.\nMore accurate ways of measuring mass is done now.\n\nU can calculate it's weight by a formulae:\nW=mg.\nW-Wieght\nm-mass\ng-aceleration due to gravity (9.8 ms^-2)
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Mass can be defined as any structured  Matter that forms a volume. As opposed to other substances which are not mass and cannot be weighted;examples are masseless particles described in Relativity theories.\nWeight describes an interaction between two masses.\nBoth masses when touching would experience a force which we call weight. We on earth are able to sense weight. The greater the mass ,the more weight we feel.\n\nThe standard of weight is the kilogram which is measured on a balance scale is really a comparative measurement of mass.\nThe reason is that on a balance scale both masses experience the same acceleration. (aceleration is a measure of how much you are pushed down by gravity). Hence ,no matter where the scale is located in the gravity field it will always measure the same.\nHowever the case is not the same in a spring scale,because it directly measures a gravitational force. The scale at sea level would read different weight than the one on top of a high mountain. \nYou would not feel any weight if you were far away from a large mass as the earth. Since you have no mass interaction you would be weightless but not massless. Nevertheless, The gravity phenomena will still keep  you body in one piece.\nThe subject of measuring mass and weighing mass is not very clear to most people. It is very confusing ,so don't feel bad if you find it that way.
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Most American countries use scales to measure an object's weight, or Earth's gravitational pull on it, while most European countries use balances to measure its mass- a measure of the amount of matter in the object. The reason for European countries to measure mass instead of weight is because mass is a more reliable way to measure things, because it doesn't change in relation to your position on Earth.
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If you mean inches and feet and such instead of metric??? I think we got that from mother England.  Most of the world is now metric but I am sure the USA is not alone.  There must be other stubborn backward countries left out there.
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1000 meters.\n\n* Kilo = 1000 units
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Depending on which reference you go by, it is in the vicinity of 6.0 X 10^24 kilograms.  \n\nSince, 1 kilogram = 0.00110231131 short tons we can say that the earth weighs approximately 6.61386787 x 10^21 short tons.
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I believe there is one in Rennes, France. I forgot what it's called.
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Go to http://www.rosecitysoftware.com An download their DU Meter.  \n\nMinddoctor. France