The "'taxe poids lourds "'( "'TPL "') is a tax that was scheduled to be applied to all heavy goods vehicle circulating on some state-financed and locally financed roads in France starting from 1 October 2013.
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Since the modern ( English, American and Imperial ) troy ounces are roughly 1.5 % heavier than the late Paris ounce, the exact historical relations between the original " marc de Troyes ", the French " poids de marc ", the Flemish trooisch pond and the English troy pound are unclear.
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On 9 April 1959, Meissner sailed from New York City for Europe to visit his sister and niece, visit the " Bureau International des Poids et Mesures " ( International Bureau of Weights and Measures ), teach in the summer semester at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, and attend an interferometry conference in London.
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In the meantime, Philippe Adrien has also staged many contemporary writers : Juan Mayorga ( " La Tortue de Darwin " ), Werner Schwab ( " Exc�dent de poids, insignifiant : amorphe " ), and Blandine Solange ( an adaptation of " Exposition d une femme, lettre d une psychotique & " ).
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By 1970, the company was fairly diversified, making a superior line of classic cars ( L'�ge d'or-about 12 models ), Les Militaires ( about 40 models ), commercial vehicles ( Toner Gam-about 15 models ), and " Poids Lourds ", a series of larger heavier diecast trucks ( about 10 different models ).
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-- > The provisional kilogram standard had been fabricated in accordance with a single, inaccurate measurement of the density of water made earlier by Antoine Lavoisier and Ren?Just Ha�y, which showed that one cubic decimeter of distilled water at 0�C had a mass of 18, 841 grains in France's soon-to-be-obsoleted " poids de marc " system.
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Until 1875, the French government owned the prototype metre and kilogram, but in that year the Convention of the metre was signed, and control of the standards relating to mass and length passed to a trio of inter-governmental organisations, the senior of which was the General Conference on Weights and Measures ( in French the " Conf�rence g�n�rale des poids et mesures " or CGPM ).
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To address this issue, the Comit?International des Poids et Mesures ( CPIM ), also known as the International Committee for Weights and Measures, affirmed in 2005 that for the purposes of specifying the temperature of the triple point of water, the definition of the Kelvin thermodynamic temperature scale would refer to water with a composition of the nominal specification of VSMOW . The decision was welcomed in 2007 by Resolution 10 of the 23rd CGPM.
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The ephemeris second, based on a fraction of the tropical year derived from Simon Newcomb's expression for the mean solar motion, became a standard in 1960, but in 1967, at the 13th Conf�rence G�n�rale des Poids et Mesures, the second was redefined in terms of a value for the ephemeris second that had been precisely measured by Essen in collaboration with William Markowitz of the United States Naval Observatory in terms of the frequency of a chosen line from the spectrum of caesium.
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Among Palaemon's ascribed works is a " Song on Weights and Measures " ( " " ) In this poem, first edited in 1528, the term " gramma " is used for a weight equal to two Roman ounce or about 1.14 grams . ) This eventually led to the adoption of the term " gram " as a unit of weight ( " poids ", later of mass ) by the French National Convention in 1795.
