Question: The meter was defined in 1963 as the length equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation emitted by the krypton-86 atom (the meter has

The meter was defined in 1963 as the length equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation emitted by the krypton-86 atom (the meter has since been redefined). What is the wavelength of this transition? What is the frequency?

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