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Centimetre gram second system of units

Centimetre gram second system of units

a system of physical units. It is always the same for mechanical units, but there are several variants of electric additions. It was replaced by the MKS, or metre-kilogram-second system, which in turn was replaced by the SI system, which has the 3 base units of MKS plus the ampere, mole, candela and kelvin.

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