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" The gram calorie, or small calorie (cal.) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. at 15° C., and the kilogram calorie, or large calorie (Cal.), is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram... "
Bulletin - Page 51
1911
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A Text-book of Physics

George Albert Wentworth - Physics - 1898 - 456 pages
...quantity of heat which it gains or loses. In the examples given the unit of heat is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. The unit of heat commonly used in Physics is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature...
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Coal and Metal Miners' Pocketbook of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables ...

International Correspondence Schools - Mining engineering - 1900 - 728 pages
...water 1° F. at or near the temperature of maximum density, 39.1° F. A calorie is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. at or about 4° C. A pound calorie is the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1...
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A Manual of Practical Hygiene for Students Physicians and Medical Officers

Charles Harrington - Hygiene - 1902 - 812 pages
...obtained by its complete combustion, and is expressed in units of heat or calories. The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. is known as a large calorie; that required to raise the temperature of 1 gram to the same extent is...
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Electricity and Magnetism: Electrodynamics. Electrical Resistance and ...

International Correspondence Schools - Electric batteries - 1905 - 760 pages
...temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. The unit of heat, called the kilogram-calory, is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. Evidently, 1 kilogram-calory = 1,000 gram-calories. ELECTRICAL UNITS 19. Unfortunately there are two...
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International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for ..., Volume 12

Agriculture - 1906 - 698 pages
...the small calorie, or the kilogram-calorie and the gram-calorie. The first is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. The second is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. When...
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Practical Testing of Gas and Gas Meters

Charles Henry Howard Stone - Gas - 1909 - 382 pages
...however, against expressing results in this manner. The Calorie, as has been stated, is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. All of these units are in the metric system, and to speak of Calories per cubic foot is simply to express...
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Technical Paper, Issue 76

United States. Bureau of Mines - Mines and mineral resources - 60 pages
...calorie (cal.) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. at 15° C., and the kilogram calorie, or large calorie (Cal.), is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C. at 15° C. In the English system, which is generally...
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Bulletin

Mines and mineral resources - 1912 - 860 pages
...of 1 gram of water 1° C., and the kilogram calorie, or large calorie (Cal.), is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of...pound calorie, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1° C. For example, assume that under a vessel containing 2,000...
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The Diseases of children

Henry Enos Tuley - 1913 - 704 pages
...analyses is given of Ramogen and whole-milk mixtures : Calorie. — A calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C., which is about equivalent to the amount required to raise a pound of water 4° F., and is used as a...
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Feeds and Feeding: Abridged, the Essetntials of the Feeding, Care, and ...

William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison - Animal feeding - 1915 - 714 pages
...the units of measure employed being the Calorie and the therm. A Calorie (C.) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1° C., or 1 Ib. of water nearly 4° F. A therm (T.) is 1,000 Calories, or the amount of heat required to raise...
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