| Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1897 - 1240 pages
...the composition of the hydrocarbons the heating values were calculated. The British Thermal unit is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit, so for Boston gas one cubic foot would raise 689.7 pounds water from 60 to 61 degrees.... | |
| Ohio. Chief Geologist - 1871 - 612 pages
...absolute or natural unit of heat, relative values alone can be obtained and the unit assumed may be the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. The value of the elements is expressed in terms of this unit, and the value of the coals in this table... | |
| 1871 - 594 pages
...absolute or natural unit of heat, relative values alone can be obtained and the unit assumed may be the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. The value of the elements is expressed in terms of this unit, and the value of the coals in this table... | |
| Ohio. Chief Geologist - Agriculture - 1871 - 598 pages
...absolute or natural unit of heat, relative values alone can be obtained and the nnit assumed may be the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature. The value of the elements is expressed in terras of this unit, and the value of the coals in this table... | |
| Frank Salter - Steam - 1874 - 134 pages
...number be divided by the number of foot pounds which are equal in value to one unit of heat, that is to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahr. We have seen that that number of foot pounds is 772 (Joule's mechanical equivalent of heat).... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1879 - 636 pages
...or so-called unit of heat. The unit I have adopted and used throughout those calculations is that of the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahr. This unit is called the specific heat of the body; thus water being the unit is 1, cast-iron... | |
| Robert Röntgen - Heat-engines - 1880 - 762 pages
...as meaning the French heat unit, or calorie. In order to distinguish these tiro heat nnlts from that amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Ctntiyradt, we may call this latter amount a " therm," or " thermal unit." EXAMPLE. Required to raise... | |
| Austin Flint - 1881 - 1026 pages
...heat-value. This has heen expressed in what are called heat-units, the English value of a heat-unit heing the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. It is also calculated that one heat-unit converted into force will raise 772 pounds one... | |
| Joseph Anthony Gillet, William James Rolfe - Physics - 1882 - 206 pages
...of the body. The temperature of a body is independent of the amount of heat in it. A unit of heat is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree in temperature ; and specific heat is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of a given substance one degree... | |
| Sports - 1915 - 706 pages
...gravity weighs 6.16 pounds per gallon and contains 18,000 BTU per pound. (BTU= British Thermal Unit. 1 BTU is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.) The boiling point of gasoline ranges from 150° to 180° F. One pound of liquid gasoline... | |
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