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WITH reference to the letter from Mr. Sommerville in your present issue, may I state that, in the discussion at the Belfast Meeting of the British Association, I pointed out that the height in the scale pan at which a thing is weighed affects its apparent weight and that the change from this cause is quite within the capacity of the best balances? I also referred to the last report from Sèvres by Dr. Guillaume, who made the interesting statement that it would be certainly possible now to observe that one pair of kilogram weights side by side weighed more than they would do when resting one on the other.5
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BOYS, C. The Conservation of Mass . Nature 67, 103 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067103b0
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