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metrology

which are the basic quantities? list them and include their international standard units

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Base quantity Base unit Definition
Time second The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.
Length meter The meter is the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Mass kilogram The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram.
Electric current ampere The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10−7 newton per meter of length.
Thermodynamic temperature kelvin The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.
Amount of substance mole The mole is the amount of substance of a system that contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilograms of carbon-12; the elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles, or specified groups of such particles.
Luminous intensity candela The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian

 


they are:

Length     

 Mass     

Time    

Electric current  

Temperature   

Luminous intensity  

Amount of substance 

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