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with an SI prefix (kilo) as part of its name. The word kilogramme or kilogram is derived from the French kilogramme, which itself was a learned coinage, prefixing the Greek stem of ?????? "a thousand" to gramma, a Late Latin term for "a small weight", itself from Greek ???uu?. The word kilogramme was written into French law in 1795, in the Decree of 18 Germinal,which

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