CHEM1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Luminous Intensity, Kilogram, Ampere
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Every field of science involves taking measurements, understanding them, and communicating them to others. In other words, we all have to speak the same basic language. Consider the screen on which you"re reading this text right now. It might be an lcd screen, which is made up of liquid crystals. The chemist developing a specific formulation for a liquid crystal has to meaningfully communicate information to an engineer so that the engineer knows how to manufacture it. The engineer, in turn has to be able to communicate with other engineers, physicists, and chemists to design the circuit boards, display screens, and electronic interfaces of the rest of the computer. If these people don"t all speak the same language, the enterprise will never get off the ground. The international system of units is the metric system used in science, industry, and medicine.
