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Question
Answer the following in short.
What do you understand by the term ‘mass’? Name any one instrument used for weighing.
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Solution
The amount of matter present in an object is called it's mass. Instruments used to measure mass are beam balance, spring balance, physical balance, electronic weighing machines, etc.
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