...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...(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....

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...