 | Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig - Metallurgy - 1870 - 884 pages
...the grate is employed, if the production of an intense fire is intended. Schinz calls units of heat that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of 1 Ib. of water by 1° Fahr. Only 0-2377 unit of neat is required for heating 1 Ib. of air 1°. This... | |
 | Franz Schwackhöfer - Fuel - 1884 - 308 pages
...Maxwell's " Theory of Heat," ch. iii. ; also p. 49. The unit usually employed in calculations on heat is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of a weight-unit of water by one degree of the thermometer. On the Continent the unit weight is always... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Meteorology - 1884 - 274 pages
...hemisphere is higher than that of the southern hemisphere. The specific heat of any substance is the quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one pound of the substance 1°. The specific heat of water is greater than that of any other known substance,... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1885 - 344 pages
...does not exceed one in a thousand. The unit of heat generally adopted in this book is defined to be that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water at 18—20° C through one degree centigrade2. 48. Various forms of calorimeters... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-boilers - 1888 - 710 pages
...unit or " calorie," as it was called by the French philosophers who first adopted the metric system, is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one kilogramme of water one degree centigrade, — the " kilogramme-degree." Specific Heat is the quantity... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-boilers - 1890 - 704 pages
...unit or " calorie," as it was called by the French philosophers who first adopted the metric system, is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one kilogramme of water one degree centigrade, — the " kilogramme-degree." Specific Heat is the quantity... | |
 | Daniel Kinnear Clark - Steam-boilers - 1891 - 424 pages
...near 39°. 1 F., the temperature of maximum density of water. The French thermal unit, or calorie, is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one kilogramme of pure water 1 degree Cent., at or about 4° C., which is equivalent to 39°. 1 F. Mechanical... | |
 | Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev - Argon - 1891 - 636 pages
...This is the simplest expression of the fact discovered by Dulong and Petit. The specific heat measures that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one unit of weight of a substance by one degree. If the magnitude of the specific heat of elements be multiplied... | |
 | Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev - Argon - 1891 - 636 pages
...This is the simplest expression of the fact discovered by Dulong and Petit. The specific heat measures that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of опк unit of weight of a substance by one degree. If the magnitude of the specific heat of elements... | |
 | William Kent - Engineering - 1895 - 1234 pages
...MEASUREMENT OF HEAT. Unit of Heat,— The British unit of heat, or British thermal unit 'B. T- U-), in that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of 1 Ib. of pure water 1° Fahr,, at or near 39°. l F., the temperature of maximum density of water.... | |
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French thermal unit, or calorie) is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one pound of pure water through one degree Fahr. at or near 39.1° Fahr., the temperature of maximum density of water. As employed in general practice,... 
