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Standards of Measurement

The goal is to define standards of length, mass, time and temperature that are both precise and reproducible. Of the four only mass still lacks a referent in nature

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 218 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Standards of Measurement” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 218 No. 6 (), p. 50
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0668-50