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Lawrence believed that industrialized Western culture was…
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Common Weights and Measures
Length
Metric System
1 millimeter = 1/1,000 meter
1 centimeter = 1/100 meter
1 decimeter = 1/10 meter
1 meter (basic unit of length)
1 dekameter…
