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Major shake-up of the SI

Posted on 2019-05-14 by ronniec

One of our regular contributors, Ronnie Cohen, has followed up on Martin Vlietstra’s article about the “new kilogram”, with a summary of the forthcoming changes to SI. It proved difficult to create some of the symbols used by SI in the text … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Technical | Tagged BIPM, measurement units, SI | 2 Comments

Planned upgrades to the SI

Posted on 2017-01-06 by ronniec

We kick off 2017 with an article for metric geeks. Likes(25)Dislikes(0)

Posted in Science, Technical | Tagged 2018, ampere, Avogadro, base, BIPM, Boltzmann, brochure, candela, constant, constants, definition, definitions, document, draft, IPK, Kelvin, kilogram, metre, mole, Planck, second, SI, units, upgrade, values | 9 Comments

UKMA launches Measurement Units Style Guide

Posted on 2012-07-05 by Robin Paice

In an attempt to bring about some improvement in the sloppy and inconsistent way in which metric units are often written, the UK Metric Association has today (5 July 2012) published a “Measurement Units Style Guide”. Aimed at anybody who … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, General, Media | Tagged BIPM, Education, litre, measurement units, metric, SI, symbol, UKMA | 24 Comments

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Major shake-up of the SI

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UKMA launches Measurement Units Style Guide

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