 | James Henry Shepard - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1885 - 410 pages
...Hence its calorific power is said to be equal to 34,462 thermal units, — the thermal unit or Calorie being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Centigrade. HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN COMPOUNDS. 37. Test. — Hydrogen may be recognized... | |
 | James Henry Shepard - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1885 - 412 pages
...Hence its calorific power is said to be equal to 34,462 thermal units, — the thermal unit or Calorie being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Centigrade. HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN COMPOUNDS. 37. Test. — Hydrogen may be recognized... | |
 | Engineering - 1879 - 542 pages
...give out, in the process of combustion, rather more than 14,000 British units of heat, each such unit being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature ] of one pound of water 1° Fahrenheit of j heat. To effect this combustion, 140 cubic feet of atmospheric air,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1888 - 638 pages
...zenith. The heat-unit most employed by engineers is the calorie, which is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. It is found by observation that each square metre of surface exposed perpendicularly to the sun's rays... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - Astronomy - 1890 - 372 pages
...when the sun is near the horizon. Expressed in calories (a calorie ' being the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade) the amount of heat received by each square metre of the earth's surface exposed perpendicularly to... | |
 | James Henry Shepard - 1891 - 408 pages
...Hence its calorific power is said to be equal to 34,462 thermal units, — the thermal unit or Calorie being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Centigrade. 37. Test. — Hydrogen may be recognized by its flame and behavior,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1891 - 216 pages
...general use in connection with problems of this character is defined to be the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade (the Calorie). Generally the heat of combination is only one of a number of factors in the total thermal... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - Physics - 1892 - 384 pages
...derived from the Metric system, is the unit now in the best use. It is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. 361. Specific Heat. — The specific heat of any substance is strictly its capacity for heat, and is... | |
 | Elias Hudson Bartley - 1895 - 748 pages
...English measure, or the gram-meter or kilogram-meter in the metric system. The heat unit, or calorie, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from zero to |° C. In English measures a thermal unit is the amount of heat necessary to raise i pound... | |
 | Children - 1909 - 732 pages
...Calorimetry is a method of measuring the potential energy of food. A calory is a heat unit and represents the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. It is the accepted standard of estimating the values of the various food-stuffs. The exactness of the... | |
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CALORIE (kal'6 ri): the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade... 
