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    The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May...
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    générale des poids et mesures – CGPM), which was established by the Metre Convention of 1875, brought together many international organisations to establish...
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    of reference in 1901. This was also the result of the Metre Convention of 1875, when the metre was adopted as an international scientific unit of length...
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    Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) was established by the Metre Convention. This has evolved into the International System of Units (SI) as a...
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    international measurement unit by the Metre Convention of 1875 at the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution. The Mètre des Archives and its copies such...
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  • intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the Metre Convention through which member states act together on matters related to measurement...
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    Faggot (unit) History of measurement Orders of magnitude (volume) Metre Convention Physical quantity Tonne (unit) SI Units - Volume at nist.gov. Retrieved...
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  • ampere and ohm. After the Metre Convention of 1875, work started on international prototypes for the kilogram and the metre, which were formally sanctioned...
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    of its maximum density, which is approximately 4 °C. 1875–1889: The Metre Convention was signed in 1875, leading to the production of the International...
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    standard kilogram. Effective 20 May 2019, the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention, the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole are now defined by setting...
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    several times since the Metre Convention in 1875, and new additions of base units have occurred. Since the redefinition of the metre in 1960, the kilogram...
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    International Metre Commission, which met in Paris in 1870 and again in 1872 with the participation of about thirty countries. The Metre Convention was signed...
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    of the artefact's fabrication and distributed to signatories of the Metre Convention serve as de facto standards of mass in those countries. Additional...
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    The BIPM was created on 20 May 1875, following the signing of the Metre Convention, a treaty among 17 Member States (as of November 2018[update] there...
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    the SI symbol for gram-metre) or "Gm" (the SI symbol for gigametre). The word gramme was adopted by the French National Convention in its 1795 decree revising...
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  • System of Units. The date is the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. Metrology is the study of measurement. The World Metrology...
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    officially came into force on 20 May 2019, the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention. The kelvin is often used as a measure of the colour temperature of...
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    geodetic standard at the General Conference held in Paris in 1875. The Metre Convention was signed in 1875 in Paris and the International Bureau of Weights...
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    established in 1875 by the Metre Convention, overseeing the International System of Units (SI). For example, the metre was redefined in 1983 by the...
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  • including the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the Metre Convention, APEC, and international pageants. "Chinese Taipei" is a deliberately...
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    countries. On 20 May 1875, an international treaty known as the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) was signed by 17 states. This treaty established the following...
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    is the system of units that has been officially endorsed under the Metre Convention since 1960. Child articles are: SI base unit SI derived unit Non-SI...
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    doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b01912. PMID 31479264. Gupta, S. V. (2010). "Metre Convention and Evolution of Base Units". Units of Measurement. Springer Series...
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    2017-08-24. Retrieved 2020-04-15. The day is the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention. Derived from k\text{e} = 1 / (4πε0) – "2018 CODATA Value: vacuum electric...
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  • ‘The Metre Convention’. Being NMI of India and to fulfil the mandate, Dr. K. S. Krishnan, the then Director, CSIR-NPL signed the ‘Metre Convention’ on...
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    the Convention of the Metre. In 1960 the two countries agreed to common definitions of the yard and the pound based on definitions of the metre and the...
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  • Convention and Exhibition Centre in the 2015/16 State Budget. This project commenced in May 2016 and opened on 1 July 2018. The 20,000-square-metre expansion...
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    to the Gregorian calendar of 20 May 1875 as the date the Convention du Mètre (Metre Convention) was signed in Paris (the explicit reference date was removed...
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    twenty national delegations to a convention in Paris that resulted in seventeen of the nations signing the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875, and the establishment...
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  • ISO 25178 Josephson voltage standard Metre Convention Unified Code for Units of Measure International prototype metre International Prototype of the Kilogram...
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