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Great question! It is because the "standard" is a kilogram cylinder of metal in Paris. A gram is 1/1000 of that. This is actually a problem since it is not as stable as once thought. There is a move afoot to change to a more stable, reproducible and portable standard.

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Kilograms is the official base unit for mass in the SI. Earlier "metric systems" sometimes used centimeters, grams, and seconds; the SI uses meters, kilograms, and seconds - probably because the cgs systems resulted in some fairly small units.

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Because grams are on a scale too small for regular use.

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Actually, the international unit for mass is the kilogram. Both gram and kilogram have been defined as units of mass, so that's why they are used.

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The kilogram is the basic metric unit of mass.

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That is the unit that is used.

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