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Kilograms at NIST

NIST's platinum-iridium kilogram K92 (front) with stainless-steel kilogram masses in the background.

Credit: J.L. Lee/NIST
Artwork shows a hand with tweezers inserting a piece of DNA in a larger strand. The smaller piece has a black and white barcode attached.

DNA Barcode Ilustration

Barcodes are used in a new way in the MAGESTIC platform, adding a new level of precision to CRISPR gene editing.

Credit: Kelly Irvine/NIST
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NIST-on-a-Chip lab setup
NIST-on-a-Chip lab setup
Man in clean suit and purple gloves holding a kilogram sample with tongs
Eddie Mulhern with Kilogram
kilograms under glass jars
Kilograms at NIST
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Bill Fisher at Yubico’s booth at RSAC 2018
Bill Fisher at Yubico’s booth at RSAC 2018
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Mortar SRM in a Double-helix Rheometer
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Illustration of a plasmomechanical oscillator
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X-ray camera
X-ray camera
a new quantum drum
a new quantum drum
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BMF Interior
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laser table
Laser Table
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NIST Standard Reference Material 1880b, Portland Cement
NIST Standard Reference Material 1880b, Portland Cement
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detector and feedhorn arrays
LED mapper
LED mapper
EBSD map of the same cross section shown in Figure 7.  The black line shows the location of the melt pool boundary.
Figure 8
Material Matters Summer 2015
Material Matters Summer 2015
NIST-4 Watt Balance
NIST-4 Watt Balance
Headshot of Walter Copan with an American flag as the background
Walter Copan
NIST Stone Test Wall mortar work
NIST Stone Test Wall mortar
a basketball-sized stainless steel spherical acoustic resonator ringed with sensors
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Fuel Cell Channels
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Measuring Photosynthesis Up Close
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H-terminated Si surface.
H-terminated Si surface.
STM patterning at 4K.
STM patterning at 4K.

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