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" Specific heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a solid or liquid body a certain number of degrees; water is adopted as the unit or standard of comparison. "
Junior High School Mathematics - Page 71
by Edson Homer Taylor, Fiske Allen - 1919 - 210 pages
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A Practical Treatise on Heat: As Applied to the Useful Arts, for the Use of ...

Thomas Box - Heat - 1868 - 262 pages
...measuring the amount of heat absorbed or evolved during any operation : in this country the standard unit is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water 1° Fahr. This amount is not quite uniform at all temperatures, as is shown by the experiments of Eegnault...
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Steam and the Steam Engine: Land and Marine

Henry Evers - Steam - 1873 - 176 pages
...enable the observer to read off easily the change in temperature. 18. Unit of Heat. — A unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree. Suppose a pound of water to be raised from 10°C. to 20°C., it has received ten additional...
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Steam and the Locomotive Engine

Henry Evers - Locomotives - 1873 - 174 pages
...enable the observer to read off easily the change in temperature. 18. Unit of Heat. — A unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree. Suppose a pound of water to be raised from 10° C. to 20°C., it has received ten additional...
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Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine and Locomotive

Henry Evers - Steam - 1873 - 426 pages
...quantities of water are employed, and not pounds. 10. A Unit of Heat. — A unit of heat is defined as the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree. Hence the units of heat in a pound of steam at 100°C., number 637-2. 11. Consumption of...
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The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer, Volume 21; Volume 39

Medicine - 1878 - 744 pages
...may never change its whole amount. Joule first discovered the equivalent of heat to mechanical force. The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree would when properly applied raise a pound of water 772 feet high. One degree of heat is...
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The gas manager's handbook

Thomas Newbigging - 1883 - 512 pages
...of carbonic oxide, burning to carbonic acid, yields 4478 ditto. NOTE. — The standard unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water 1° Fahr. As a rule, when firing with coke, cleaning off the fire bars once in 12 hours is sufficient....
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Hand-book of Modern Steam Fire-engines: Including the Running, Care and ...

Stephen Roper - Fire engines - 1889 - 422 pages
...measuring the amount of heat absorbed or evolved during any operation, in this country the standard unit is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water 1° Fah., or from 32° to 33° Fah. Specific Heat. — Different bodies require different quantities...
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Heating by Hot Water: With Information and Suggestions on the Best Methods ...

Walter Jones - Hot-water heating - 1894 - 254 pages
...water at 32° Fahr. 1°, ie, from 32° to 33°, and is called the British thermal unit. SPECIFIC HEAT is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a solid or liquid body a certain number of degrees ; water is adopted as the unit or standard of comparison....
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Food and Nutrition Investigations in New Jersey in 1895 and 1896

Edward Burnett Voorhees - Bread - 1896 - 308 pages
...capacity of the various materials to yield heat. The results of measurements of fuel value are expressed in calories. A calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water 4° F. The calories in each of the three classes of nutrients are on the average as follows: Calorics...
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First Principles of Natural Philosophy

Amos Emerson Dolbear - Physics - 1897 - 344 pages
...degree as it will to heat one pound one degree, it has been found convenient to adopt a heat unit, which is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree,. When ten pounds of water are heated ten degrees, the water is said to possess 100 heat...
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