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The density of water is 1 gm/cm³. What is its value in SI units?

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The density of water is indeed 1 g/cm³, which stands for grams per cubic centimeter. However, the International System of Units (SI) typically uses the kilogram as the base unit for mass and the cubic meter as the base unit for volume. To convert the density of water to SI units, we need to convert grams to kilograms and cubic centimeters to cubic meters.

1 g = 0.001 kg (since there are 1000 grams in a kilogram)
1 cm³ = 0.000001 m³ (since there are 1,000,000 cubic centimeters in a cubic meter)

Now we can perform the conversion:

Density in SI units = (1 g/cm³) x (0.001 kg/g) x (0.000001 m³/cm³)
= 0.000001 kg/m³

Therefore, the density of water in SI units is 0.000001 kg/m³.