 | John Pickering Putnam - 1880 - 358 pages
...Centigrade = 1.8U Fahrenheit. 1° Fahrenheit = 0.55° Centigrade. 1 metric heat unit or calorie is the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 ' Centigrade. 1 caloric = 3.968 English heat-units. find the velocity of the draught rising to 285... | |
 | 1907 - 816 pages
...diabetic requires as many heat and energy calories as a healthy individual. By the term calorie is meant the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius. By the means of this term we can measure the amount of energy of the various kinds... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1890 - 894 pages
...absorption, as was indicated by Forbes in 1842. According to Pouillot (Paris, Comptes Beudus, 1838, tome vir, pp. 24-65), a surface of 1 square centimeter exposed...the result of observation on six very clear days in 1837-'3S, but observations by others have generally shown a higher value for the amount of heat originally... | |
 | Wilbur Olin Atwater, Charles Dayton Woods, Francis Gano Benedict - 1897 - 308 pages
...units or ergs per second. Hence in the time t, energy in ergs=CEtx 107. If a calorie be defined as the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree at 15° C. it will be equivalent to a definite number of ergs, which must be determined by experiment.... | |
 | 1899 - 116 pages
...(JGS units or ergs per second. Hence in the time t, energy in ergs=CEtxlOT. If a calorie be denned as the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree at 15° C. it will be equivalent to a definite number of ergs, which must be determined by experiment.... | |
 | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree - 1901 - 490 pages
...of the total energy which it is capable of yielding. This energy is usually measured in Calories, a Calorie being the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1° Centigrade (or 1 Ib. of water 4° Fahr.).1 But in estimating the adequacy of a diet for practical purposes,... | |
 | George Moses Price - 1915 - 380 pages
...serves as criterion of the heat and food values. The measure of heat is in " Calories." A calorie is the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water, 1° Centigrade. It has been found out that: i gram of protein gives 4.1 available calories 1 gram of carbohydrates... | |
 | William Kent - 1901 - 522 pages
...JOHNSON'8 TESTS CORRECTED AND COMPARED BY PEU CENT OF FIXED CARBOX TO TOTAL COMBUSTIBLE. * A calorie is the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1° centigrade = 3.968 BTU When used as a measure of the heating value of a fuel it ia the number of units... | |
 | Frederick Walker - 1902 - 242 pages
...Centigrade unit), the amount of heat required to raise 1 Ib. of water 1° Cent., and the cal. which is the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1° Cent. The conversion factors are — Convert BTU into PCU x 0.555 „ BTU „ Cal. x 0.252 „ PCU... | |
 | 1904 - 572 pages
...foot-lb. of work is done per second. 1 watt equals yicth of a horse-power. (WE Ayrton.) CALORIE. — The amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1° C. is the unit of heat employed on the Continent. 1 calorie = 4,200 joules = 42 X 109 ergs. 1 joule -0.000238... | |
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The large calorie, or the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1° C. 
