When folks say stuff like "carrots are 87% water" I always wonder how that's being measured.
Like first off, is the measurement by volume? By mass? By number of molecules? And what's actually being measured? 87% of everything? 87% of liquid? 87% of non-organic compounds?

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@SwooshyCueb By mass, usually, and percentage out of everything
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@SwooshyCueb if it's by something other than mass it'll say so explicitly, but it's weird to do it by volume and stuff because that changes with temperature and depending on solution physics it's possible for a solution of something in water to have a smaller volume than the water by itself
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