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The Names of Physical Units

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IT would appear from the interesting letter of the Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures that he has a little misunderstood my reference to the new expressions he employs in the preface to the “Recueil de Constantes Physiques.” If he will refer again to the review to which he takes exception, he will see that, on the matter of nomenclature, all I wrote was:—

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HARKER, J. The Names of Physical Units. Nature 95, 427–428 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095427b0

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