Why do we use an object's mass, rather than its weight, to indicate the amount of matter it contains?

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Wickkiey · Answer 1 · 2022-05-23T06:48:41+0000

Because its weight is the gravitational force on it; this will change if you move it to another planet or get further away from the Earth. The mass, however, will never change. It’s even a Lorentz invariant.

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