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What is the advantage in choosing the wavelength of a light radiation as a standard of length?

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Advantage are (1) wavelength of light radiation can be easily and accurately reproduced (2) It is not affected by environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure etc.(3) It is independent of other physical quantities.
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