Kilogram Reference Losing Weight

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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Call us when you're using Newtons, and we'll talk.

[Valdrax]

The kilogram is not a measure of weight, but mass. Silly pound-centric editors :p

Dear Metric Using Countries,

Please call us back when the majority of your citizens are measuring their weight in Newtons instead of Kilograms, and we'll consider addressing your charge of Pound-related bias.

Sincerely,
The People of the United States of America