A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris.
This is equal to 424 kilogram meters (Centigrade scale).
These operations made, it is of little consequence if the value itself of the kilogram of wheat varies, as is the case with the value of every thing else.
In due course the actual values of things alter; varying continually, and it is the same with the kilogram of wheat or with any support whatever that has served to define the unity.
A calorie has reference to the quantity of heat which will raise the temperature of one kilogram of water, one degree Centigrade.
This is calculated by the amount of heat which is necessary to raise a kilogram of water one degree Fahrenheit.
Then if we melt 1 kilogram of ice, we must supply it with 80 such units of heat.
But as soon as it begins melting it also begins to absorb heat to supply the 80 thermal units which, as we know, are required to turn each kilogram of the ice to water.
If only 10 units are supplied, then we get only one eighth of a kilogram of water, and no more nor less.
We take the unit quantity of heat to be that which is required to heat 1 kilogram of water 1° C.
Made in America, this valuable instrument could fire a four-kilogram conical projectile an average distance of sixteen kilometers without the least bother.
This simply means that 79° of heat (centigrade degrees) have become latent, and represent the heat of liquefaction of 1 kilogram of ice.
We say, therefore, the latent heat of water is the heat which is absorbed or rendered latent when a unit of weight, say 1 kilogram of water as ice, melts and liquefies to a unit of water at zero, or it is 79 heat units.
Thus for example, the atmospheric pressure is often given as 15 pounds to the square inch or as one kilogram to the square centimeter.
This simple relation between the three standard units may be given thus: first, the liter is a cubic decimeter, and second, the kilogram is the mass of a liter of water.
After which 25 grams of fat per day are added until there is no further loss of weight, taking care never to allow more than 40 calories per kilogram of body weight.
A liter of water weighs 1 kilogram; 1 kilogram of water = 2.
One hundred and twenty calories per kilogram can be given in about 10 days.
No additional fat is allowed until the protein tolerance reaches 1 gram per kilogram of body weight, unless the patient's tolerance for protein is less than that.
The diet is made up of protein on the basis of approximately 2/3 of a gram per kilogram of body weight at the time the patient leaves the hospital, a quantity of carbohydrate known to be well tolerated and the balance of the calories in fat.
Thus, if sugar shows on C7PF7 the diet prescribed would be that included in C5PF7 and thereafter progression could be made in the PF group until twenty-five to thirty calories per kilogram body weight were furnished the patient.
The purins are computed by Hall as follows: 1 kilogram contains, Grams Purin Milk Butter Eggs Cheese Farina Rice Hominy Potato 0.
No attempt should be made to reach 120 calories per kilogram during the first few days.
Thirty calories per kilogram is as much as is wise to give in the first 24 hours of feeding.
Experiments made upon premature infants have proved that the caloric needs of these babies are greater than in the case of full-time babies; that is, they require more per kilogram of body weight.
These are the actual deeds that are carried out constantly in the Putumayo, and for the lack of one kilogram in the weight of their quota of rubber they murder, mutilate, and torture the people.
This unit[2] measures energy as heat, being the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 deg.
I have already stated that the water pressure augments at the rate of one atmosphere (one kilogram to the square centimeter) to ten meters' increase of depth.
It is well known that for every ten meters under water we oppose the pressure of one atmosphere--one kilogram to the square centimeter--and we must be prepared to dive to far greater depths.
The doses are calculated for cubic centimeters of the undiluted drugs per kilogram of rat.
The fatal doses, in terms of milligrams per kilogram ranged as follows: Alypin, Holocain 10 Beta Eucain 12.
Crookes says in describing it: "Probably if half a kilogram were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all.
This instrument measures the difference in the attraction of the earth for a mass of one kilogram when that weight is moved nearer to or farther from the centre of the earth by as little as one centimetre.
It is estimated that coffee trees last from forty to fifty years, yielding an average crop of one-eighth of a kilogram of coffee beans per tree.
Half a kilogram (eighteen ounces) is considered the portion for each person.
A Calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water from zero to one degree Centigrade.
It is usually expressed as milligrams of agent perkilogram of subject body weight (mg/kg).
From this the following curious formula has been deduced: If a kilogram of dog produces eight kilograms of masseteric force, a kilogram of crocodile could produce twelve.
Now, a kilogram of, the aforesaid Robur would not produce less than ten, so that he came between the dog and the crocodile.
The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Centigrade.
With adults, it is advisable to give about 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, if possible; with children 1.
One kilogram (often written kilo, or abbreviated to K.
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