The Metric System

Weed Science ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-409

The fundamental unit of the metric system is the METER (the unit of length) from which the units of mass (GRAM) and capacity (LITER) are derived; all other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples thereof. These three units are simply related, so that for all practical purposes the volume of one kilogram of water (one liter) is equal to one cubic decimeter.

Weed Science ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-282

The fundamental unit of the metric system is the METER (the unit of length) from which the units of mass (GRAM) and capacity (LITER) are derived; all other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples thereof. These three units are simply related, so that for all practical purposes the volume of one kilogram of water (one liter) is equal to one cubic decimeter.


Weed Science ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-604

The fundamental unit of the metric system is the METER (the unit of length) from which the units of mass (GRAM) and capacity (LITER) are derived; all other units are the decimal subdivisions or multiples thereof. These three units are simply related, so that for all practical purposes the volume of one kilogram of water (one liter) is equal to one cubic decimeter.


2020 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Y. G. Zakharenko ◽  
N. A. Kononova ◽  
V. L. Fedorin ◽  
Z. V. Fomkina ◽  
K. V. Chekirda

The results of the work to create a complex of high-precision hardware for the unit of length reproduction and transferring carried out at “D. I. Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology (VNIIM)” are represented. This complex will serve as the basis for the further development of the reference base of the Russian Federation in the field of length measurements and will allow reproduction of the unit of length at two wavelengths of 633 nm and 532 nm, as well as measurements of the wavelength of laser sources in vacuum in the range from 500 to 1050 nm.


1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Powell

The Newgrange passage tomb is examined for evidence of ‘Neolithic science’. Claims that it incorporated an astronomical alignment, and was constructed using Pythagorean geometry and the megalithic yard are reviewed as are scientific interpretations of its art. A new analysis of the tomb's structure reveals that it was based on a simple geometric shape measurable by a 13.1 m unit of length. The locations of particular motifs and decorated surfaces are shown to conform to the spatial relationships evident in the tomb's form. These are defined in terms of oppositions between left and right, front and back, inside and outside, visible and hidden, as well as making reference to symbols found in the art of the neighbouring passage tomb at Knowth.These features are interpreted, not as evidence of a specificically scientific discourse in the Irish Neolithic, but as the elaboration of elements common to the passage tomb ritual discourse. Competition for political control, in the context of mortuary practices, resulted in the increasing formalization and rigid interpretation of passage tomb symbolizm, and the ritualization of new areas of knowledge.


1973 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Blackett

Fecundity of resident Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) in an isolated population of southeastern Alaska averaged 66 eggs per female in comparison with 1888 eggs for anadromous Dolly Varden from two nearby streams. A relatively large egg size, averaging 3.6 mm in diameter and overlapping the range for the anadromous char, has been retained by the females in the resident population. Curvilinear regressions between egg number and fish length and linear regressions between egg number and body and ovary weights show that resident females have fewer eggs per unit of length, approximately the same number of eggs per gram of body weight, and more eggs per gram of ovary weight than anadromous females. The resident char attain sexual maturity a year earlier in life and at a smaller size than the migratory char. Development of a larger left ovary containing more eggs than the right was a common occurrence for both resident and anadromous Dolly Varden.


Development ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 104 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Lawrence

The hypothesis that parasegments are a fundamental unit of design in the Drosophila embryo was put forward three years ago (Martinez-Arias & Lawrence, Nature 313, 639-642, 1935). Here, I summarize new evidence in favour of the hypothesis.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 201-201
Author(s):  
N. Capitaine ◽  
B. Guinot

In 1991, IAU Resolution A4 introduced General Relativity as the theoretical background for defining celestial space-time reference sytems. It is now essential that units and constants used in dynamical astronomy be defined in the same framework, at least in a manner which is compatible with the minimum degree of approximation of the metrics given in Resolution A4.This resolution states that astronomical constants and quantities should be expressed in SI units, but does not consider the use of astronomical units. We should first evaluate the usefulness of maintaining the system of astronomical units. If this system is kept, it must be defined in the spirit of Resolution A4. According to Huang T.-Y., Han C.-H., Yi Z.-H., Xu B.-X. (What is the astronomical unit of length?, to be published in Asttron. Astrophys.), the astronomical units for time and length are units for proper quantities and are therefore proper quantities. We fully concur with this point of view. Astronomical units are used to establish the system of graduation of coordinates which appear in ephemerides: the graduation units are not, properly speaking astronomical units. Astronomical constants, expressed in SI or astronomical units, are also proper quantities.


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