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Kilims (Persian: Ú¯ÙÛÙââ gelÄ«m, Azerbaijani: Kilim Ú©ÛÙÛÙ, Turkish: Kilim, Turkmen: Kilim) are flat tapestry-woven carpets or rugs produced from the Balkans to Pakistan. Kilims can be purely decorative or can function as prayer rugs. Modern kilims are popular floor-coverings in Western households.
The International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) is an artifact standard or prototype that is defined to be exactly one kilogram mass. In metrology (the science of measurement), a standard (or etalon) is an object, system, or experiment that bears a defined relationship to a unit of measurement of a physical quantity.n contrast, the reference standard for the meter is no longer defined by a physical object (as the former international prototype meter (IPM) or originally the metre mÃ¨tre Des). Archives in, 1983 the standard meter was redefined as the distance light travels in a vacuum during/299,792,458 299792458 of a. second