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Last Artifact

The world's base unit to measure weight, the kilogram was the last of the SI units still defined, not by a universal constant, but by a physical artifact - a man-made cylinder located at the International Bureau of Weights and Measurements in France. The program recounts how a necessary update to the standard resigned this object to history.

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