 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - 1883 - 376 pages
...Feeble.—The telephone current is very feeble. It has been estimated that the force represented by the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade would be sufficient to impress 10,000 words on a Bell telephone. This would be more than twenty pages... | |
 | John Henry Robinson - 1899 - 280 pages
...is the gross fuel value of its digestible matter. It is expressed in calories per ounce. A calory is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade. One ounce of carbohydrates or protein has a potential energy of one hundred and sixteen calories. One... | |
 | 1901 - 780 pages
...various food substances is estimated in calories, the calorie being the unit of heat, and representing the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade. By burning the various food substances it has been determined that one gram of nitrogenous food yields... | |
 | Nevil Monroe Hopkins - 1905 - 310 pages
...heat.—The amount of heat required to raise a gram of a substance one degree in temperature as compared with the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree. Calorie.—The unit of heat. The amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree in temperature.... | |
 | Lynn Banks McMullen - 1906 - 476 pages
...points/ Vbetween the fixed points / or F - 32 9 ' (38) Measurement. — Terms Used. — The calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade. The specific heat of any substance is the ratio of the amount of heat required to raise unit mass of that... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - 1907 - 172 pages
...the amount of heat required to raise one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. The gram-calory is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade. The calorific power — or, which is the same thing, the heating power — of a gas, is the number of heat... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - 1908 - 168 pages
...the amount of heat required to raise one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. The gram-calory is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade. The calorific power — or, which is the same thing, the heating power — of a gas, is the number of heat... | |
 | Howard Monroe Raymond - 1908 - 440 pages
...the amount of heat required to raise one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. The gram-calory is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade. The calorific power — or, which is the same thing, the heating poiver — of a gas, is the number of... | |
 | Bradley Stoughton - 1908 - 536 pages
...BTU) is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit; a calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade. In both cases the water must start at its maximum density, which is at 39.1° F. ( = 4° C.). One BTU... | |
 | Bradley Stoughton - 1908 - 528 pages
...I".) is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit; a calorie is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade. In both cases the water must start at its maximum density, which is at 39.1° F. ( = 4° C.). One BTU... | |
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British thermal unit — the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. 
