 | Robert Röntgen - 1880 - 684 Seiten
...heating. This conclusion seems not without interest. QUESTIONS FOB EXAMINATION. What amount of work Is required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree ? How many pounds make a kilogram ? What two theories arc there ? Give Redtcnbneher's theory. What... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 372 Seiten
...cent. when the sun is near the horizon. Expressed in calories (a calorie ' being the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade) the amount of heat received by each square metre of the earth's surface exposed perpendicularly to... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1891 - 216 Seiten
...unit in general use in connection with problems of this character is defined to be the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade (the Calorie). Generally the heat of combination is only one of a number of factors in the total thermal... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - 1892 - 384 Seiten
...Calorie," derived from the Metric system, is the unit now in the best use. It is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. 361. Specific Heat. — The specific heat of any substance is strictly its capacity for heat, and is... | |
 | George Milbry Gould - 1896 - 720 Seiten
...the heat-units by the calorimeter. Calory (kal'-or-e) [Fr., Calorie}. A heatunit ; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. Calumba (kal-um'-lxi/i) [native Mozambique, Aalumli}. Columbo. The root of C. jateorrhiza, native to... | |
 | 1921 - 514 Seiten
...calories are needed for heavy work in cold weather. A calory is the amount of heat required 378 379 to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. The chemical study of food has been supplemented in recent years by biological studies of the effect... | |
 | 1909 - 732 Seiten
...measuring the potential energy of food. A calory is a heat unit and represents the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. It is the accepted standard of estimating the values of the various food-stuffs. The exactness of the... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - 1897 - 696 Seiten
...great and the small calorie, or the kilogram and the gram caloric. The first is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. The second is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1897 - 160 Seiten
...unit in general use in connection with problems of this character is defined to be the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade (the Calorie). Generally the heat of combination is only one of a number of factors in the total thermal... | |
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Calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree Centigrade. 
