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Since the kilogram has a prefix in the the list of SI units would it be wise to redefine the mass of the platinum iridium cylinder at the international bureau of weights and measures as 1g rather than 1kg?

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Surely a better way is to give the kilogramme a new name?

This idea is problematic because of, amongst other things, the vast usage of the word kilogramme in scientific and other type of literature, the dependence of other SI units on the kilogramme, and the politics/nationalism of such an idea.

A proposal is that the new name is that the unit is called the giorgi being named after Giovanni Giorgi who proposed the metre-kilogramme-second system of units, on which the SI system is based, in 1901.

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