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  2. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Apothecaries' system; Atom (time) – a hypothetical unit of time used in the Middle Ages; Bahar – a unit of length in Iran, and was a unit of mass in Oman; Batman – mostly a unit of mass, but sometimes a unit of area; Demal – unit of concentration; Dimi (metric prefix) – a discontinued non-SI metric prefix for 10 −4 [7]

  3. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Planck units is system of geometrized units in which the reduced Planck constant is included in the list of defining constants. It is based on only properties of free space rather than of any object or particle. Stoney units is a system of geometrized units in which the Coulomb constant and the elementary charge are included.

  4. Coherence (units of measurement) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest units of measure devised by humanity bore no relationship to each other. [citation needed] As both humanity's understanding of philosophical concepts and the organisation of society developed, so units of measurement were standardized—first particular units of measure had the same value across a community, then different units of the same quantity (for example feet and inches ...

  5. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The systems formalised the concept of a collection of related units called a coherent system of units. In a coherent system, base units combine to define derived units without extra factors. [4]: 2 For example, using metre per second is coherent in a system that uses metre for length and second for time, but kilometre per hour is not coherent.

  6. Historical definitions of the SI base units - Wikipedia

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    The Celsius scale: the Kelvin scale uses the degree Celsius for its unit increment, but is a thermodynamic scale (0 K is absolute zero). Θ mole: mol amount of substance "1. The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12; its symbol is 'mol'. 2.

  7. Wichita’s water plant controversy resurfaces. Why does the ...

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    Wichita Water Partners identified two firms it would use as a short-term operator of the plant, and one of them “had high visibility challenges due to its operations of the Flint water system ...

  8. Hydrologic unit system (United States) - Wikipedia

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    As one analysis put it: "The hydrologic unit framework is in fact composed mostly of watersheds and pieces of watersheds. The pieces include units that drain to segments of streams, remnant areas, noncontributing areas, and coastal or frontal units that can include multiple watersheds draining to an ocean or large lake.

  9. Simu Liu asks fans to stop 'bullying' bubble tea brand amid ...

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    While guest-starring on the Canadian show 'Dragon's Den,' Simu Liu criticized a bubble tea company he said risked 'cultural appropriation.'