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However mass is but one measurable quantity of the sugar at
hand or needed for cooking, volume is another, weight another.
One could argue that these are properties of the object, the
lump or pile of sugar, which is where I found my quandary to
start.
Well, Ken, we have convincingly demonstrated here that language is
a fumbling point. But aren't "mass" and "color" and "momentum" and
"entropy" and "energy" properties of a system? If physicists could
agree on anything, maybe it could be the word to use in this
case.: Property? Characteristic? I would agree to any word as
long as it doesn't imply substance or flowability. <g>