NIST: Special Publication 811

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The NIST Guide for the use of the International System of Units

A. Thompson and B. N. Taylor

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Abbreviated Table of Contents - Extended Table of Contents

		Cover
		Preface
		Check List for Reviewing Manuscripts (Chapter 11)
1.		Introduction
2.		NIST policy on the Use of the SI
3.		Other Sources of Information on the SI
4.		The Two Classes of SI Units and the SI Prefixes
5.		Units Outside the SI
6.		Rules and Style Conventions for Printing and Using Units
7.		Rules and Style Conventions for Expressing Values of Quantities
8.		Comments on Some Quantities and Their Units
9.		Rules and Style Conventions for Spelling Unit Names
10.		More on Printing and Using Symbols and Numbers in Scientific and Technical Documents
Appendix A		Definitions of the SI Base Units
Appendix B		Conversion Factors B.8 Factors for units listed alphabetically B.9 Factors for units listed by kind of quantity or field of science
Appendix C		Comments on the References of Appendix D - Bibliography
Appendix D		Bibliography
		Footnotes

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