 The gram calorie, or small calorie (cal.), is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1°...  Household Physics - Page 8by Claude H. Brechner - 1919 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1902 - 730 pages
...one degree is called the specific heat of that suUstance — the unit chosen being the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. Example: Mix a known mass of hot lead shot with a known mass of cold water. Find the gram-degrees which... | |
 | Leonard Landois - 1891 - 606 pages
...unit of measurement is the "heat-unit," or "calorie," i.?., the amount of heat (or potential energy) required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (see Introduction). This is sometimes called the small caloric. Experiment has shown that equal quantities... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Physics - 1898 - 456 pages
...temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. The unit of heat commonly used in Physics is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. This unit is called a calorie. Heat is a quantity in the same sense that weight or force is a quantity... | |
 | Sir William Augustus Tilden - Chemistry - 1899 - 284 pages
...weight of 424 grams through a distance of 1 metre, or 1 gram falling 424 metres, generates heat enough to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. The same facts may be expressed in English weights and measures, by saying that the fall of 772 Ibs. through... | |
 | Analytical chemistry - 1900 - 584 pages
...to raise the temperature of 1 gram of the substance in question 1° C. as compared with the amount required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (see Art. 43, Thcorctical Chcmistry). This definition is meant to apply to determinations made under... | |
 | Agriculture - 1902 - 662 pages
...to raise the temperature of 1 gram of the substance in question 1° C. as compared with the amount required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (see Art. 43, Theoretical Chemistry). This definition is meant to apply to determinations made under... | |
 | Winfield Scott Hall - 1905 - 824 pages
...proven that 425.5 grams, falling through a distance of 1 metre, would by impact generate enough heat to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. The number of ergs in a calorie (very approximately 42,000,000) is known as the mechanical equivalent of... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Electric batteries - 1905 - 760 pages
...required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. The second is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. When merely the one word calorie is used, the gram-calorie is generally, though not always, the one... | |
 | Winfield Scott Hall - Physiology - 1905 - 824 pages
...proven that 425.5 grams, falling through a distance of 1 metre, would by impact generate enough heat to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. The number of ergs in a calorie (very approximately 42,000,000) is known as the mechanical equivalent of... | |
 | Agriculture - 1906 - 698 pages
...hence equal to 1 erg-per-second. 18. The unit of heat, called the gram-calory, is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. The unit of heat, called the kilogram-calory, is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of... | |
| |
