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    System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the...
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  • centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS) is based on three base units: centimetre, gram and second. Its subsystems (CGS-ESU, CGS-EMU and CGS-Gaussian) have different...
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  • part of the speed of light when expressed in cgs units. NIST Special Publication 1038, Section 4.3.1 Le Système international d’unités [The International...
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    the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system and its subtypes, the CGS electrostatic (cgs-esu) system, the CGS electromagnetic (cgs-emu) system, and their still-popular...
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  • squared. The modern International System of Units (SI), from the French Système international d'unités, was originally created as a formalization of the...
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  • called the "centimetre–gram–second electrostatic system of units" (the cgs esu system), the constant ke was taken equal to 1, and a quantity now called...
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    using the cgs system of units. The committee also recommended the names of "dyne" and "erg" for the cgs units of force and energy. The cgs system became...
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  • the weber for the practical unit of magnetic flux (and the maxwell for the CGS unit). It was decided to extend the existing series of practical units into...
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  • nouvelle unite de masse undécimogramme. Quant au système des unités, il prendrait alors la dénomination de système électro-dynamique hebdomètre-undécimogramme-seconde...
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    "cc" (for cubic centimetre, equal to a millilitre or mL) is a unit of the cgs system, which preceded the MKS system, which later evolved into the SI system...
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    system of units. The newton thus became the standard unit of force in the Système international d'unités (SI), or International System of Units. The newton...
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    000 Pa ≡ 100,000 N/m2. Thus, 1 bar is equal to: 1,000,000 Ba (barye) (in cgs units); and 1 bar is approximately equal to: 0.98692327 atm 14.503774 psi...
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  • dose, defined as 1 rad = 0.01 Gy = 0.01 J/kg. It was originally defined in CGS units in 1953 as the dose causing 100 ergs of energy to be absorbed by one...
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    January 2019). "Les origines du système métrique en France et la Convention du mètre de 1875, qui a ouvert la voie au Système international d'unités et à...
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    applications, MKS (rationalized) or SI (Système International) units are commonly used. Two other sets of units, Gaussian and CGS-EMU, are the same for magnetic...
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  • LaTeX Cookbook, Packt Publishing Ltd, pp. 158–9, ISBN 978-1-78439-630-5 Le Système international d’unités [The International System of Units] (PDF) (in French...
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    "kilometres per hour". The SI standards, which were MKS-based rather than CGS-based, were published in 1960 and have since then have been adopted by many...
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    CGPM, its system of units was named the International System of Units (Système international d'unités, abreviateed SI). The Metre Convention provides...
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  • These include gravitational systems, the centimetre–gram–second systems (cgs) useful in science, the metre–tonne–second system (mts) once used in the...
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    and Measurements (ICRU). One sievert equals 100 rem, which is an older, CGS radiation unit. Conventionally, deterministic health effects due to acute...
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    January 2019). "Les origines du système métrique en France et la Convention du mètre de 1875, qui a ouvert la voie au Système international d'unités et à...
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    metre–kilogram–second (MKS) system, rather than the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system, which, in turn, had many variants. The SI units for the seven base...
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    \times \mathbf {B} } The SI unit of B is tesla (symbol: T). The Gaussian-cgs unit of B is the gauss (symbol: G). (The conversion is 1 T ≘ 10000 G.) One...
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    its relocation. Einstein used the centimetre–gram–second system of units (cgs), but the formula is independent of the system of units. In natural units...
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    Retrieved 2015-01-30. Bureau international des poids et measures (2019): Le système international d'unités, complete brochure, 9th edition. NIST (2019): Special...
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    equivalent, torques are never expressed in units of energy.: 23  In the CGS system, there are several different sets of electromagnetism units, of which...
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    (January 2019). "Les origines du système métrique en France et la Convention du mètre de 1875, qui a ouvert la voie au Système international d'unités et à...
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    continued alone and created the foundations of what is now called the Système International d'Unités and is the measurement system for most of the world...
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    nouvelles benzodiazepines hydrosolubles douées d'une puissante activité sur le système nerveux central" [On new water-soluble benzodiazepines endowed with a powerful...
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    p. 4.128 Haynes, p. 10.249 Seifert, H.-J.; Dau, E. (1972). "Über die Systeme Alkalimetallbromid/Mangan(II)-bromid". Zeitschrift für Anorganische und...
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