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BottleBob

wrote:

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:11:22 -0700, BottleBob
wrote:

the decision was the result of 20 years of
thought, discussion, and negotiations that resulted in the International
Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) unanimous adoption of 20 °C as
the reference temperature on April 15, 1931.

Easy,

They put seven engineers (like Cliff) on a committee, they argued for
twenty years, six of them died, number six died on April 15, 1931.

Tom:

Well there ya go. You can always be counted on to drill down to the
bedrock of a matter. At 20C, of course. g

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