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Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 4, pp. 3–4, April, 1968.
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Shost'in, N.A. D. I. Mendeleev and the metric system of measures. Meas Tech 11, 429–431 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994370
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