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铯

caesium (cesium)

铯
sè4th tone
Pinyin
sè
Strokes
11
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 铯

铯 is written with 11 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

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The atom the SI second has been defined by since 1967.

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传统的原子钟,数的是铯原子在微波频段的振动,每秒大约九十亿次。

Traditional atomic clocks count the vibrations of caesium atoms in the microwave band — about nine billion times a second.

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