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General Conference on Weights... (metrology)

science · 21 October 1983 · 42 years ago

General Conference on Weights and Measures At the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures, the length of a metre is redefined as the distance light travels in vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

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