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The United Kingdom Metric Association http://www.ukma.org.uk
DTI website — about weights and measures and use of metric http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/weights_measurers.htm
UK Metrication http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/metric.htm
The National Weights and Measures Laboratory http://www.nwml.gov.uk
Metrication Matters — What is metrication and why does it matter? http://www.metricationmatters.com
International Standard Paper Sizes http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html or http://www.learningplace.info/iso-paper.html
Modern metric system — Modern weights and measures, a complete reference http://www.metre.info
Metrication — lots of helpful info and converters (be warned that the site plays music when loaded, do not access if the music will cause a problem, e.g. at work) http://www.metrication.com
Metric to Metric conversions (short quiz) http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa021903a.htm?terms=metric
Interactive animation showing how big very small things are http://www.cellsalive.com/howbig.htm
United States Metric Association http://www.metric.org
US National Institute for Standards and Technology — about units and constants http://physics.nist.gov/cuu
Think Metric sign at US-Canada border http://geography.about.com/library/photos/blzz23.htm?terms=metric
Metric System Measurements for Non-Metric Users http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/intermediate/a/basicmetric.htm
Metric Road Signs Seen in the USA
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/signs.htm
Learn the Metric System on Line with Mr. Light Bulb — for younger Internet users http://king.prps.k12.ca.us/prhs/pasohigh/classes/Fairbank/public.www/homepage/chemist/metric/Metrhome.htm
International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) http://www.bipm.fr
One Metre — Canadian metric site http://members.shaw.ca/gw.peterson/metric.html
Canadian Metric Association — not an official site, but gives contact details http://niagara.cioc.ca/details.asp?RSN=5108&Number=0
Metric prefixes http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5118/metric.htm
Other Think Metric sites http://www.think-metric.com http://www.thinkmetric.com
Dictionary of units http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units
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This page was last udpated on 29 April, 2006
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