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But getting the measure of this colossally important figure, for China's destiny as well as the rest of the world's, is fiendishly hard.
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German language terms used for the celebration include Christkindlwiegen: the verb included in that compound word, "wiegen", indicates both rocking/cradling and weighing/getting the measure of the baby. The celebration involved a form of congregational dancing accompanied by singing around a picture of Jesus placed on a crib or adjacent altar. The performance was led by the priests, and the singing, at least initially, appears to have consisted of duet sung by two priests.“Joseph, lieber neve mîn, Hilf mir wiegen daz kindelîn.
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Report to the CGPM, 14th meeting of the Consultative Committee for Units (CCU), April 2001, 2. (ii); General Conference on Weights and Measures, 22nd Meeting, October 2003, which stated "The kilogram is in need of a new definition because the mass of the prototype is known to vary by several parts in 108 over periods of time of the order of a month ..." (3.2MB ZIP file, here). The precise reason for this short-term instability is not understood but is thought to entail surface effects: microscopic differences between the prototypes' polished surfaces, possibly aggravated by hydrogen absorption due to catalysis of the volatile organic compounds that slowly deposit onto the prototypes as well as the hydrocarbon-based solvents used to clean them.BBC, Getting the measure of a kilogram It has been possible to rule out many explanations of the observed divergences in the masses of the world's prototypes proposed by scientists and the general public.
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