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References
- 1 2 3 Cardarelli, François (2003). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. London: Springer. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4471-1122-1.
- ↑ Gyllenbok, Jan (2018-04-12). Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures. Birkhäuser. ISBN 9783319667126.
- ↑ Jerrard, H. G. (2013-03-09). A Dictionary of Scientific Units: Including dimensionless numbers and scales. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401705714.
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