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Centimetre gram second system of units

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Centimetre gram second system of units

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SI is based on 'centimetre-gram-second'

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The unit of measurement for luminance in the International System of Units (SI) candela per square metre. In the Centimetre-gram-second system of units, the unit of luminance is the stilb.

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The metric system is all based around 1 cubic centimetre of water under normal conditions. From this, we can derive length, volume and mass units ie:

1 cubic centimetre of water has the volume of 1 millilitre.

1 cubic centimetre of water has the mass of 1 gram.

1 cubic centimetre of water measures 1 centimetre, so 1000 in a row would measure 1 metre.

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SI is the Systeme Internalionale of measurement in which the Metre, kilogram and Second are some primary units. An older system based on metric units used centimetre, gram, and second as the primary units. Obviously these may be converted into SI units, but the CGS system is no longer used. [Some of the definitions of the fundamental units differ between these systems.]

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