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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!sam.cchem.berkeley.edu!gezelter
  2. From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.cesium
  4. Subject: Time and our heroic element
  5. Date: 10 Sep 1992 04:14:06 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <18mi2eINN8e3@agate.berkeley.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.cchem.berkeley.edu
  11.  
  12. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology
  13. (formerly NBS): 
  14.  
  15.   The second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of
  16. the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two
  17. hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium 133.
  18.  
  19.   Thought you'd like to know.
  20.  
  21.      --Dan
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  24. Don't step on my blue suede .sig      gezelter@lithium.cchem.berkeley.edu
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