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struggle4progress

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5. Give it a good sandblasting!

Reply to Warpy (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 01:31 PM

Jan 2013

Or mebbe subject it, in a high vacuum, to an EM field of appropriate frequency (to avoid untoward photochemistry)

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Why the kilogram is getting heavier [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2013 OP

... ergo the rest of us all weigh a little less! Scuba Jan 2013 #1

Technically, we will mass a little less mindwalker_i Jan 2013 #2

I suppose cleaning them is out of the question... Warpy Jan 2013 #3

Give it a good sandblasting! struggle4progress Jan 2013 #5

The kilogram is ... the only SI unit that is still directly defined by an artifact. Jim__ Jan 2013 #4

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