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Concepts, Units & Instruments

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Science Atlas. "Concepts, Units & Instruments." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-science.interactiveatlas.org/sections/concepts-units.

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Science Atlas. (n.d.). Concepts, Units & Instruments. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-science.interactiveatlas.org/sections/concepts-units

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@misc{scienceatlas-concepts-units-instruments,
  author = {Science Atlas},
  title = {Concepts, Units & Instruments},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-science.interactiveatlas.org/sections/concepts-units},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The abstract building blocks of scientific description: the concepts a discipline defines its claims in terms of, and the units the atlas measures them by. This is the place to start for a term before following it into the theories and experiments that use it.

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Concepts

One undivided list of 76 entries.

Units

One undivided list of 8 entries.

Instruments

One undivided list of 37 entries.

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