France holds the existence ’s monetary standard for the kilogram weighting . It ’s a piston chamber - shape target that has dictated all other kilogram weightiness for 130 years now . As it ’s made from platinum - Ir though , the US is concerned it ’s no longer precise . Whoops ?
domiciliate in France ’s International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the free weight is in reality the yardstick the ampere , mole and candela units are measured by . While the kg has n’t changed much over those 130 years , it ’s enough drive for concern that the US ’ National Institute of Standards and Technology has put forward they ’re going to accommodate a formal complaint at next year ’s General Conference on Weights and Measures .
Would n’t you love to be a rainfly on the wall as ( kilograms of ) shit hits the lover then ? [ GizMag ]
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