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| | liter (litre) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Symbol, l, and in the United States, L (which was approved as an alternative symbol by the CGPM in 1979, Resolution 6). |
 | | However, the mass of the kilogram is actually defined by the mass of the platinum prototype, which was based on an 18th century determination of the mass of a cubic decimeter of water. |
 | | In 1964 the 12th CGPM (Resolution 6) abrogated the 1901 definition and declared “that the word ‘liter’ may be used as a special name for the cubic decimeter,” and recommended that it not be used to present the results of high accuracy volume measurements. |
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