Mass (say) 1 kilogram. Then we can measure the mass of any other object in the universe by colliding it with the reference object and measuring the accelerations. Additionally, mass relates a body's momentum p to its linear velocity v: and the body's kinetic energy "K" to its velocity: The primary difficulty with Mach's definition of mass is that it fails to take into account the potential energy (or binding energy) needed to bring two masses sufficiently close to one another to perform the measurement of mass. This is most vividly demonstrated by comparing the mass of the proton in the
Molar mass water: "M"(HO) ≈ . The molar mass of atoms of an element is given by the Standard atomic weight of the element multiplied by the molar mass constant, "M" = 1 × 10 kg/mol = 1 g/mol: Multiplying by the molar mass constant ensures that the calculation is dimensionally correct: standard relative atomic masses are dimensionless quantities (i.e., pure numbers) whereas molar masses have units (in this case, grams/mole). Some elements are usually encountered as molecules, e.g. hydrogen (H), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl). The molar mass of molecules of these elements is the molar mass of the atoms multiplied by