The meter was defined originally as
a. one ten-millionth of the diameter of Earth.
b. one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole.
c. the wavelength of a line in the spectrum of krypton-86.
d. the length of a platinum-iridium bar.
b
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