13:11 - 14:36
1m 25s
Bill shows how units of length, such as a meter, can be used to measure the mass of an object. He mentions a few unit conversions, most notably that a liter of water is equivalent to a kilogram and stresses that only three-tenths of a meter and water are needed to measure an object's mass.
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