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If you go to a grocery store and decide to buy a kilo of fruits it is NOT exactly one kilo of fruits you are buying, even if the scale says it is one kilo. There are other factors that come into play such as gravity, mass, etc. However, because the differences are so minute that you do not notice it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Prof. De Bievre said that discussions are ongoing about re-defining several SI units, especially the kilogram and the mole. Several proposals have been put on the table for consideration. One of the proposals is to separate the definition of the mole from the definition of the kilogram. Another proposal is to fix several fundamental constants, and base the definition of several SI units on the values of these constants. The value of the kilogram would then be based on the fixed value of the Planck constant.Prof. De Bievre is currently in town to attend and speak at the 10th International Conference on Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences (NAMLS-10). 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