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AT the next Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures in October 1964 a resolution will be presented that the litre be re-defined as the volume of a cubic decimetre1,2 rather than as the volume of 1 kg of pure water at 4° C. This communication is not intended to question the general propriety of this decision, but to point out the effect it would have on oceanographic data.
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Cox, R. Proposed Re-definition of the Litre, and the Effect on Oceanographic Data. Nature 202, 1098 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021098a0
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