Authors Rafał L. Ossowski - Central Office of Measures (Główny Urząd Miar)
This paper discusses the action taken by the Mass Laboratory of the Central Office of Measures in the period 1997–2015 to verify the risks of the instability (drift) of the stainless steel reference mass standards used in the mass unit dissemination process.
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