Stability of reference masses: VI. Mercury and carbonaceous contamination on platinum weights manufactured at a similar time as the international and national prototype kilograms

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 518-531

  Cumpson, Peter J ^a   Portoles, Jose F ^a   Sano, Naoko ^a   Barlow, Anders J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; MASS STANDARD; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; POLISHED SURFACES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RATE OF INCREASE; SAMPLE SURFACE; WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY;

CONTAMINATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PHOTOELECTRONS; PLATINUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 84885156924     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/5/518     Document Type: Article

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