Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight (USA Today)
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the kilogram, kept tightly under lock and key, is mysteriously losing weight.
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PGM kilogram cylinder is losing weight - 13th September 2007 (Platinum today)
The platinum and iridium cylinder used as the international standard for the metric kilogram is losing weight, scientists have discovered.
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Kilogram Reference Losing Weight (Slashdot)
doubleacr writes "Ran across a story on CNN that says the "118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 ...
