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Kilogram Reference Losing Weight

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the incredible-shrinking-alloys dept.

doubleacr writes "Ran across a story on CNN that says the "118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.""

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  1. Haha! by Twisted64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So am I! But thankfully I'm not used as a reliable reference weight.

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  2. Re:It must not lose mass! by CowboyBob500 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I can't believe I got this far down the page before anyone mentioned that it's a unit of mass and not weight.

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