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 Andrew Gray
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 Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
A calorie is the heat unit used in the estimation of the fuel value of various foods.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
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