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THE experience gained1 with the cæsium resonator has shown that it can be used for establishing a unit of time interval with great ease and accuracy, and it is now important to decide how this new facility can best be incorporated into the general framework of time measurements. It is necessary first to outline the present position with rather more practical detail than has been given in the recent correspondence in these columns2,3.
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ESSEN, L. Atomic Time and the Definition of the Second. Nature 178, 34–35 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178034a0
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