 | Harold Lindsay Amoss - 1915 - 274 pages
...thermometer registers the degree of heat. The quantity of heat is expressed in Calories. A small Calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water 1° C. The large Calorie (C) equals 1000 small Calories. The large Calorie is generally... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1908 - 748 pages
...square foot, it may be assumed, will give off about 250 heat units in one hour — a heat unit being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water, 1 degree Fahrenheit. A pound of coal may safely be counted on to give off to the water in... | |
 | Vladimir Karapetoff - Engineering - 1916 - 138 pages
...the so-called specific heat at constant volume. It will be seen from Eq. (2) that c,,, by definition, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of gas one degree Centigrade, the volume of the gas remaining constant. In the metric system... | |
 | 1916 - 1096 pages
...given off on its combustion. As a unit of measurement we make use of the large calorie (Cal.), that is, the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from 0° to 1° C. When one gram of glucose is burned in a bomb calorimeter, it yields... | |
 | Diagnosis - 1916 - 1096 pages
...given off on its combustion. As a unit of measurement we make use of the large calorie (Cal.), that is, the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from 0° to 1° C. When one gram of glucose is burned in a bomb calorimeter, it yields... | |
 | Lewellys Franklin Barker - Diagnosis - 1916 - 1096 pages
...given off on its combustion. As a unit of measurement we make use of the large calorie (Cal.), that is, the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from 0° to 1° C. When one gram of glucose is burned in a bomb calorimeter, it yields... | |
 | William Frederick Durand - Marine engineering - 1917 - 1012 pages
...Thermal Unit (BTU). One BTU is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit when the water is at its greatest density (39.1 degrees F.). The mechanical equivalent of i BT I*, is 778 foot pounds, which means that i BTU... | |
 | William Frederick Durand, Charles Wilson Dyson - Marine engineering - 1917 - 1016 pages
...Thermal Unit (BTU). One BTU is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit when the water is at its greatest density (39.1 degrees F.). The mechanical equivalent of i BTU is 778 foot pounds, which means that i BTU and... | |
 | William Frederick Durand - Marine engineering - 1917 - 1014 pages
...Thermal Unit (BTU). One BTU is that quantity of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit when the water is at its greatest density (39.1 degrees F.). The mechanical equivalent of i BTU is 778 foot pounds. which means that i BTU and... | |
 | LeRoy Hodges - Petersburg (Va.) - 1917 - 196 pages
...units, abbreviated BTU A British thermal unit is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit, when the water is at its greatest density. Pocahontas and New Eiver coals contain from 300 to 500 more British thermal units per pound than any... | |
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The calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. 
