 | 1902 - 730 pagine
...one degree is called the specific heat of that suUstance — the unit chosen being the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. Example: Mix a known mass of hot lead shot with a known mass of cold water. Find the gram-degrees which... | |
 | Leonard Landois - 1891 - 606 pagine
...unit of measurement is the "heat-unit," or "calorie," i.?., the amount of heat (or potential energy) required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (see Introduction). This is sometimes called the small caloric. Experiment has shown that equal quantities... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - 1898 - 456 pagine
...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 of 1 gram of water 1° C. This unit is called a calorie. Heat is a quantity in the same sense that weight or force is a quantity... | |
 | 1900 - 584 pagine
...to raise the temperature of 1 gram of the substance in question 1° C. as compared with the amount required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (see Art. 43, Thcorctical Chcmistry). This definition is meant to apply to determinations made under... | |
 | 1902 - 662 pagine
...to raise the temperature of 1 gram of the substance in question 1° C. as compared with the amount required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (see Art. 43, Theoretical Chemistry). This definition is meant to apply to determinations made under... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1905 - 760 pagine
...hence equal to 1 erg-per-second. 18. The unit of heat, called the gram-calory, is the amount of heat required to raise the 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... | |
 | Henry Clifford Cheston, James Stewart Gibson, Charles E. Timmerman - 1906 - 416 pagine
...— The process of measuring heat is called calorimetry. 227. Units of Heat. — The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. is the CGS unit of heat and is called the calorie. The FPS unit of heat is the quantity of heat required... | |
 | Alice Ravenhill - 1907 - 762 pagine
...front of the arm (L. bis, twice; caput, head). CAL--ORIE, a unit of heat, viz., the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. (L. color, heat). CALORIM--ETEB, an instrument for determining the amount of heat given out by a body... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1908 - 456 pagine
...calorie - 3.968 BTU One small, or gram, calorie (a heat unit also in some use) is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. at or near 4° C. Fusing Point, Degree! Substance F. C. 1,160 Infusible 1,931 1,913 3,542 2,192 2,912... | |
 | Georg Lunge - 1910 - 296 pagine
...TABLE 28.— HEATING EFFECTS. (a) Definitions. A metrical gram-calorie (cal.)is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C. The kilogram calorie = 1000 cal. The normal calorie is that which raises 1 gram water of 14 '5' to... | |
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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°... 
