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Redefinition of the Kilogram: A Decision Whose Time Has Come

April 1, 2005
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I M. Mills, Peter Mohr, T J. Quinn, Barry Taylor, Edwin R. Williams
The kilogram, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), is defined as the mass m(K) of the international prototype of the kilogram. This definition has the effect of fixing the value of m(K) to be one kilogram exactly. In this paper