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" It has been seen that a heat unit is the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature... "
Standard American Cyclopedia of Steam Engineering: A Treatise on the Care ... - Page 107
by Calvin Franklin Swingle - 1913 - 1249 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Nature of Heat: And Into Its Mode of Action in the ...

Zerah Colburn - Heat - 1863 - 108 pages
...assigned a dynamic value—838 foot-pounds, subsequently corrected to 772 foot-pounds—as that of the quantity of Heat required to raise one pound of water one degree, Fahrenheit, of temperature, supposing the original temperature of the water to be between 55 deg. and...
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The Second Step in Chemistry, Or the Student's Guide to the Higher Branches ...

Robert Galloway - Chemistry - 1864 - 808 pages
...temperature of one kilogramme of water, or one gramme, from 0" to 1" C. The English unit of heat is the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water one Fahrenheit degree between 55° and 60". Others adopt as the thermal unit the quatitity of heat necessary...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 39

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1869 - 968 pages
...pound in weight one foot hi;/h, at the surface of the earth. Now he proved by his experiment — That the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree, Fahrenheit, was equivalent, if converted into mechanical force, to raise one pound in weight seven...
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Geological Survey of Ohio: Report of Progress in 1870. By J.S. Newberry ...

Ohio. Chief Geologist - Agriculture - 1871 - 598 pages
...natural unit of heat, relative values alone can be obtained and the nnit assumed may be the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. The value of the elements is expressed in terras of this unit, and the value of the coals in this table...
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Annual Report on the Geoglogical Survey of Ohio

Ohio. Chief Geologist - 1871 - 612 pages
...natural unit of heat, relative values alone can be obtained and the unit assumed may be the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. The value of the elements is expressed in terms of this unit, and the value of the coals in this table...
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Report of Progress in ..

1871 - 594 pages
...natural unit of heat, relative values alone can be obtained and the unit assumed may be the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. The value of the elements is expressed in terms of this unit, and the value of the coals in this table...
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First Book in Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Joseph Anthony Gillet, William James Rolfe - Physics - 1882 - 210 pages
...The temperature of a body is independent of the amount of heat in it. A unit of heat is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature; and specific heat is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of a given substance one degree in...
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Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

Medicine - 1865 - 682 pages
...430 kilogrammetres. Mr. Joule makes the mechanical equivalent of heat 772 foot pounds — that is, the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree of Fahrenheit is equal to the heat produced by one pound of water falling 772 feet ; and it would raise...
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A Laboratory Guide in Chemical Analysis

David O'Brine - Analytical chemistry - 1889 - 264 pages
...There are cases in which both of these results are valuable. There being no absolute unit of heat, the heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature (or one kilogram one degree) is usually assumed as the standard. 353. The ultimate analysis (made in...
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A Text Book of Elementary Mechanics: For the Use of Colleges and Schools

Edward Salisbury Dana - Mechanics - 1881 - 320 pages
...produced as its equivalent. Heat is measured in heat-units; that is, the UNIT OF HEAT is that amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. For physical problems the Centigrade thermometer is universally employed; but with English-speaking...
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