History of the metric system levels of the krypton 86 atom as the new standard for the metre. The standard metre artefact was retired. In 1960, Giorgi's proposals were adopted as the basis of the "Système International d'Unités" (International System of Units), the SI. This initial definition of the SI included six base units, the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, degree Kelvin and candela, and sixteen coherent derived units. The evolution of the SI after its publication in 1960 has seen the addition of a seventh base unit, the "mole", and six more derived units, the "pascal" for pressure, the "gray", "sievert" and "becquerel" for radiation,
Mole (unit) 1%. The name "mole" is an 1897 translation of the German unit "Mol", coined by the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald in 1894 from the German word "Molekül" (molecule). However, the related concept of equivalent mass had been in use at least a century earlier. The mole was made the seventh SI base unit in 1971 by the 14th CGPM. At the 26th CGPM the definition of the mole was changed from a number derived from a weight (the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12, C) to directly being equal to Avogadro's constant. Since its adoption into the International System