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NIST 105-Series Handbooks for Legal Metrology (Commercial Weights & Measures)
105-1, Class F Weights and Mass Standards
105-2, Glass Flasks
105-3, Graduated Neck-Type Volumetric Test Measures and Provers
105-4, Liquified Petroleum Gas Type Provers
105-5, Stopwatches
105-6, Thermometers
105-7, Dynamic Small Volume Provers
105-8, Field Standard Weight Carts
New! Weight Cart Drafts for Review

We are reviewing the 105-series handbooks during 2002. Please download and use the Comment Form (in MS Word) to submit comments. Be sure to provide alternative wording when you suggest changes to a document.


For technical questions concerning the Metrology Resources for State and Commercial Laboratories, contact us:

Weights and Measures Division, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2600
Phone: (301) 975-4004, Fax: (301) 926-0647, Email: owm@nist.gov

Date created: May 22, 2002
Last updated: December 17, 2003

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