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How much to buy and what it will weigh

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Both questions on this page come down to the same two lines — volume is area times depth, mass is volume times density — and both go wrong in the same place: the density, or the mix ratio, that the calculation quietly assumed. These tools put that number on screen where you can check it against the label on the tin or the standard the glass was made to, and say plainly when the figure is a convention rather than a measurement.

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