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The gram was decreed in France on 7 April 1795, to be equal to the absolute weight of a volume pure water to a cube of one hundredth of a meter, at the temperature of melting ice. The kilogram represents the multiple of a gram. The kilogram is the SI base unit for measuring mass.In 1889, the SI redefines the kilogram... |
1 November 2007
12:12 GMT |
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You or somebody you know may have weighed around 7 pounds, 1 ounce (3.2 kg) at birth. So say the medical books. But this comes to contradict them: in a small Siberia city, a 17-pound, 1 ounce (7.7 kg) baby girl has just been delivered by Tatiana Khalina, 42, the mother of other 11 children. The girl was born on Septe... |
28 September 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Surprisingly enough, nowadays, one kilogram weighs less than it did a century ago…about 50 micrograms less. The 118-year-old international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight. "The reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the avera... |
14 September 2007
06:41 GMT |
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