Joe Reid wrote:
> I have not found the resolution of CGPM that puts the kilolitre in the "do
> not use" category. In France the wholesale wine trade works in
> hectolitres and wine is drunk by the centilitre.
Good point, Joe.
The reference I was using was, in fact the IEEE/ASTM SI 10-1997 document,
rather than the BIPM's SI Brochure.
Page 10 of that document says to use cubic meter (and its symbol) and not to
used kiloliters (kL). I assumed, wrongly, that the admonition was of CGPM
origin.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
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