 | A. Jay Stevens, Charles Willett Mallory - Pharmacy - 1905 - 152 pages
...Antimonii et Potassii Tartras. 83. How can gases be liquified? By pressure. 84. *Define Calorie. It is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Centigrade. 85. What is Spontaneous Combustion? When organic substances are... | |
 | George Arthur Merrill - Mechanics - 1905 - 292 pages
...current always involves a time element, which we also found to be Involved in power but not in work. The unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise a unit mass of water one degree in temperature. Taking a pound as the unit of mass and using the Fahrenheit... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Brookes - Machine-shop practice - 1906 - 664 pages
...limit is exceeded, owing to addition of heat, cohesion is sufficiently overcome to enable the partieles to move about freely and without restriction, and...heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fabrenhcit when the water is at its greatest density, namely, from 39 to 40 degrees... | |
 | Joseph Gerald Branch - Steam engineering - 1906 - 1016 pages
...the amount of fuel consumed, or heat expended. Q. What is the standard unit of heat A. The standard unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water at 32 degrees Fahrenheit one degree, ie, from 32 to 33 degrees. Q. What is the British thermal... | |
 | B.F. Sturtevant Company - Heating - 1906 - 190 pages
...condensation of that steam, reappear as available for heating. The standard unit of heat is equivalent to the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water through one degree Fahrenheit at its point of greatest density. A heat unit is not to be confounded... | |
 | New Jersey Geological Survey - Geology - 1906 - 472 pages
...The gases may be consumed as fuel in the process of coking, the ammonia salts recovered, 1 A Calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from zero to one degree Centigrade. the acetic acid and paraffin oil saved, and the... | |
 | American Gas Institute - Gas - 1907 - 1050 pages
...temperature between 32° and 212°, that in general the British Thermal Unit may be safely taken as the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound avoirdupois of pure water one degree Fahrenheit. Thus we may say that to raise the temperature of 30... | |
 | Ismar Boas - Stomach - 1907 - 772 pages
...end-products, the useless waste products, remain. As is known, the standard hereby employed is the calory, that is, the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogramme of water 1° C. Through experiments outside the body in the calorimeter, the caloric value... | |
 | William Hannum Grubb Bullard - Electric engineering - 1908 - 992 pages
...is called the calorie. The work equivalent to one calorie is equal to 42,000,000 ergs. The British unit of heat is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water 1° F. The relation of these units is given under the unit of electrical work, the joule.... | |
 | Cecil Hobart Peabody, Edward Furber Miller - Steam-boilers - 1908 - 488 pages
...as observed and that of saturated steam of the same pressure. The specific heat of superheated steam is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of superheated steam i° Fahrenheit. The specific heat has been found to increase with the pressure... | |
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The calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. 
