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Sent: Monday, 2004-06-14 22:22
Subject: [USMA:30127] the perfect
kilogram
On 2004 Jun 11 , at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a link to an MSNBC article on the perfect
kilogram:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5189837/
Interesting
article (especially toward the end). It seems that we may be closer to
defining the kilogram in terms of an atomic standard* sooner than I had
thought possible.
Has anyone seen anything else on this
subject?
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach,
Florida, USA
* ... defining the kilogram as the mass of a certain
specified number of atoms of some specific element (or more likely, a specific
isotope of a specific element), perhaps carbon or
silicon.
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Go Metric, America
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