Best metrics study guide
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- What is the metal that is used for both the meter bar and kilogram mass?
- Platinum
- mole
- base unit for measuring the amount of any substance involved in a chemical or other reaction
- Which is longer, a meter or a yard?
- meter
- second
- basic unit of time
- Where is BIPM located
- the Parc de Saint-Cloud, in Sèvres on the western outskirts of Paris
- What is metrication?
- The process of changing measurement units to the metric system
- candela
- base unit for measuring the intensity of light
- kilogram
- basic unit of weight
- how big is a millimeter
- .001 of a meter
- Which is larger, a liter or a quart?
- liter
- What is the 1874 alloy?
- platinum-iridium alloy
- ampere
- basic unit of electric measurements
- how big is a kilometer
- 1000 meters
- how big is a kilogram
- 1000 grams
- how big is a centimeter
- .01 of a meter
- kelvin
- basic unit of temperature
- metre or meter
- basic unit of length
- why was the metric system invented
- The goal of this effort was to produce a system that did not rely on a miscellany of separate standards, and to use the decimal system rather than fractions.
- When and where was the metric system originally invented
- 22 June 1799, In Paris