15 Oct 2011

Perfect Kilo

From This Way Up, 12:15 pm on 15 October 2011

The official kilogram weight - a lump of metal carefully stored under a bell jar in a Parisian vault - is getting lighter. So scientists are working on new ways to define it. Jonathon Keats has travelled the world in search of the perfect kilogram for Wired magazine.

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