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I wonder how much the cylinder will auction for.
by keketi 8y ago
I wonder how much the cylinder will auction for.
- adrianmonk 8y agoAt least there will be no disagreement about the shipping weight on the auction listing.
- Devagamster 8y agoThe real question is how many boxes will the fulfilment center place the kg in. If Amazon is anything to go by my money is on 3
- reaperducer 8y agoOT, but this! I recently ordered a picture frame from Amazon. It came in its packaging box, which was placed in a box by the manufacturer. That box was put in another box by Amazon and shrink wrapped to a large piece of cardboard, which was then put inside yet another box. On the surface, it seems crazy, but Amazon did manage to get it to me undamaged.
- toast0 8y agoMy wife recently ordered five storage boxes. They arrived in two packages on the same day. One package neatly fit four of the boxes. The other package was large enough for five, and contained one storage box and a excessive amount of packing material. Not an Amazon purchase, so it must be an industry issue.
- Koshkin 8y agoActually, now there can be!
- lb1lf 8y agoI have already sent an email to the Norwegian bureau of standards to inquire about buying one of their secondary kilogram standards - presumably they'll want a couple for displays and museums, but it would make for a great letter weight. (Just hoping the secondary ones are NOT also made from platinum. That is a tad too extravagant, even for a measurement nut.) I do happen to have the previous generation time standard in my garage, though, a HP 5061A Cs clock.
- ars 8y ago> Just hoping the secondary ones are NOT also made from platinum They are. They are made identically to the primary.
- lb1lf 8y agoAlso the tertiary ones? (I was -poorly- trying to indicate I was after a secondary /national/ standard - the ones calibrated against the national reference which is in turn calibrated against the Paris one. Fingers crossed. :)
- jabl 8y agoConsidering they have measurement history on that particular object going back over a century, I guess they will continue to regularly measure it to see what happens.
- anticensor 8y agoIf I were the president of France, I will nationalise that kilogramme.
- jd007 8y agoLast I heard, the original Big K, along with (some of) the secondary copies, will not be sold. Instead, they will be observed/studied in an on-going basis, in order to better understand why their masses appear to have drifted apart over the years (which is partially the reason for this re-definition).