heat unit

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“It’s a huge thermos that helps us to store the heat when we don’t need it,” said Tanja Wielgoss, who heads the Sweden-based company’s heat unit in Germany.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2022

Their certified average Scoville heat unit of 1.56 million — from a rating procedure invented by American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in 1912 — was ultimately accepted by Guinness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2014

These percentages become on the dynamical theory 68 and 10.3, since the true theoretical duty for the heat unit is only 371 foot-pounds.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

The heat unit is not a pound or yard, but a Calorie, or a definite quantity of heat, which, when applied to materials, will produce change of temperature in those materials.

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes

Don't Skip This Definition to learn: CALORIE; symbol C.; a heat unit and food value unit; is that amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of water 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

From Diet and Health With Key to the Calories by Peters, Lulu Hunt