Kilogram standard slowly losing mass: Scientists trying to devise new way to calculate measurement Sunday Gazette-Mail | November 24, 2002| | Copyright 2002 Sunday Gazette-Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

DALLAS - On the outskirts of Paris, in a locked vault to which only three people have the key, lies a treasure worth more than its weight in gold.

It's even worth more than its weight in platinum and iridium, which is what it's made of.

The squat metal cylinder weighs exactly 1 kilogram, as it should. It is the world's definition of mass, the standard kilogram against which all others are judged.

But now "le grand K," as the kilogram is known, is putting itself out of date. Since it was cast in the late 1800s, it has changed mass ever so slightly, drifting by a few millionths of a gram per ...

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