Missing micrograms and measurement accuracy

by Ed Korczynski, Senior Technical Editor

When is a kilogram actually not a kilogram? News that the world’s master reference for a kg mass is off by a not insignificant amount (and nobody knows why) illustrates an important difference between “accuracy” and “precision,” and why the semiconductor manufacturing industry has pragmatically grown to primarily rely upon the latter.

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