 | William Ripper - Steam - 1889 - 220 pages
...namely, the inch or foot, in order to measure distance ; or the pound or ton, in order to measure weight. The unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 Ib. of water 1° f., when the water is at its greatest density, namely, from 39° to 40° F. But... | |
 | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Laboratory - Anatomy - 1900 - 642 pages
...the potential energy of food stuff is expressed as heat units or calories ; the large calory, which is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one litre of water one degree centigrade, being the unit employed. Stating the value of food as so many... | |
 | Angus Sinclair - Locomotives - 1890 - 448 pages
...necessary for the comprehension of combustion as ordinary weights and measures are for mercantile purposes. The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water, at its greatest density, one degree Fahrenheit is called a heat-unit, or sometimes a thermal... | |
 | H. Joshua Phillips - Fuel - 1891 - 136 pages
...the combustion of sample, the comparative heating and evaporating power can be deduced. The French unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1° C., or more correctly from o° to 2000C.C eo'f Fig- 31° C. The calories... | |
 | H. Joshua Phillips - Chemical engineering - 1891 - 398 pages
...the combustion of sample, the comparative heating and evaporating power' can be deduced. The French unit of heat, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of i grm. of water through i° C., or more correctly from o° to i° C. The calories as here expressed... | |
 | William Dobinson Halliburton - Biochemistry - 1891 - 918 pages
...heat-units produced by the combustion of onegramme of the following substances. A heat-unit, or calorie, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gramme of water 1° C. (see also p. 605 et seq.) : — Hydrogen . . . 3450 Fat .... 9069 Carbon ....... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - Physics - 1892 - 384 pages
...capable of doing a definite amount of work. (See Art. 20.) The English unit referred to in Art. 353 is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. This unit has no other name. The " Calorie," derived from the Metric... | |
 | H. Joshua Phillips - Chemical engineering - 1894 - 426 pages
...the combustion of sample, the comparative heating and evaporating power can be deduced. The French unit of heat, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 grm. of water through 1° C., or rlk Utf 2000 CC 60 "F FI0. 17. Calorimeter in ActLn. more correctly... | |
 | Medicine - 1894 - 954 pages
...to raise that body one degree to the quantity required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of cold water, i° F., is called a unit of heat. And when a weight of one pound falls through a distance... | |
 | Iltyd I. Redwood - Ammonia - 1895 - 182 pages
...BRITISH THERMAL UNIT. A British thermal unit is the standard unit of heat in this country, and represents the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound weight of water one degree Fahrenheit — the temperature of the water being 32°; on the other hand,... | |
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The calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. 
