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The SI Unit of Length, the Meter, Is Currently Defined

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The SI unit of length, the meter, is currently defined


A) as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during 1/299792485 s.
B) as the distance between two marks on a metal bar make of a platinum-iridium alloy kept at the National Bureau of Standards.
C) by the President's foot.
D) as 10-7 of the distance from the North Pole to the equator along a meridian running through Paris.
E) 1,553,164.1 wavelengths of red cadmium light in dry air at 25°C.

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