Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers and architects (1916)
Harding, Louis Allen, Willard, Arthur C. (Arthur Cutts), 1878-1960 · New York Wiley · leaf 25
POWER PLANTS AND REFRIGERATION heat per degree to raise 1 lb. of water from 32° to 212° F., which is almost exactly the same as the heat required to raise 1 lb. of water 1° at 63.5° F. The calorimeter is an apparatus into which a hot body of known temperature and weight can be introduced, and in… … Mech. EquLV. Example. If 1 lb. of iron is put into a calorimeter con-taining 10 lb. of water, and the water rises in temperature5° F., the iron has given up 50 B.t.u., and at the same timeits temperature has fallen about 420° F. If 50 lb. of water are raised from 70° to 90° F. it iscustomary to say…
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