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SI brochure, Appendix 1, section 2.2
1st CGPM, 1889
: sanction of the international prototypes of the metre and the kilogram
3rd CGPM, 1901
: declaration on the unit of mass and on the definition of weight; convention value of
g
n
Note: This value of
g
n
was the conventional reference for calculating the now obsolete unit kilogram force.
CIPM, 1967, Recommendation 2: decimal multiples and submultiples of the unit of mass
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