Patinim-Iridium meter bar
Batang meter platinum-iridium
The standard unit of length is meter (m). Before 1967 meters was defined as the distance between two scratches on a bar platinum - iridium alloy was stored in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in Sevres, France. From 1967 to 1983, the meter was defined as 1,650,763.73 times the wavelength of a certain orange spectral line of atomic krypton-86 atoms. After 1983, then the standard unit of length used is the distance or path length in travel by light in a vacuum at 1/299.792.458 second intervals.
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