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According to LoveToKnow.com --

"In 1907, the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures - an international organization responsible for metric measurement standardization consisting today of more than 70 member nations - adopted the carat as the official metric measurement for gemstone weights."

This standard was adopted, because the previous standard -- carob seeds -- were not predictably standard or uniform.

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