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Calibration services

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If you need to measure something, NIST is the go-to place for help. And NIST is also the place to go if you need to calibrate your measuring equipment. In our everyday lives, calibrations are often the little adjustments you may make, for example to make sure the colors of your computer monitor or television are accurate, so it will show photos or videos the way that a filmmaker or photographer intended.

But for a scientific measurement laboratory such as NIST, calibrations are a bit different. NIST calibrations determine a relationship between the measurement standard (like the Kibble balance) and that instrument or object (such as a cylindrical metal kilogram mass). By using a world-class reference such as the Kibble balance, calibrations make it possible for a piece of measuring equipment to make the most accurate measurement it can.

From MRIs to lasers, NIST's calibration services are part of many aspects of everyday life.