On the Internationsl Metric System of SI Units web page, the unit names for temperature (shown as "Kelvin") and force (shown as "Newton") are incorrectly capitalized. the symbols "K" and "N" are correctly capitalized. In SI practice, the first letters of unit names that are proper names (names of persons) are never capitalized but the first letters of the corresponding unit symbols are always capitalized.
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| 12/10/2008, 3:17 PM | error in Names of SI units |
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