Adapting the international system of units to the twenty-first century

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1953, 2011, Pages 3907-3924

  Mills, Ian M ^a   Mohr, Peter J ^b   Quinn, Terry J ^c   Taylor, Barry N ^b   Williams, Edwin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Definition of the new SI; Explicit constant definition; Explicit unit definition; Fundamental constant; International System of Units; SI reference constant

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM;

AVOGADRO CONSTANT; BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; DEFINITION OF THE NEW SI; ELEMENTARY CHARGE; EXPLICIT-CONSTANT DEFINITION; EXPLICIT-UNIT DEFINITION; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; INTERNATIONAL PROTOTYPE; MAGNETIC CONSTANTS; NEW FORMS; NUMERICAL VALUES; PLANCK CONSTANTS; TRIPLE POINTS;

METRIC SYSTEM;

EID: 80055096029     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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