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Home > Iowa Academy of Science > Journals & Newsletters > Iowa Science Teachers Journal > Volume 17 > Number 3 (1980)

 

Article Title

The Meter Redefined

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Document Type

Article

Abstract

The current definition of the meter, based on the measurement of the wavelength of a line in the 86Kr spectrum, is 104 times less accurate than the definition of time by the cesium "atomic clock."

Publication Date

December 1980

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

17

Issue

3

First Page

25

Last Page

25

Copyright

© Copyright 1980 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

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