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The answer will depend on the object that you wish to measure. For example, a balance and some standard masses (wrongly called weights) will be OK for measuring the mass of a few apples but not much use for the mass of an elephant and totally useless for the mass of the sun! In the latter case, the tools are spectroscopy and computers, with physics and mathematics as intellectual tools.

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