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C. General Tables of Units of Measurement DOC | PDF
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*Note: In the bound, hard-copy edition of the 2019 Edition of NIST Handbook 44, the headers in Appendix D are erroneously labeled as “Handbook 44 - 2018” rather than “Handbook 44 – 2019;” the content of the Appendix is the 2019 version. The headers have been corrected in the electronic versions of Appendix D posted to this website.