He gave me an amused look and asked if I had any idea what a pound or two of radium, say a kilogramme (two and one-fifth pounds), would cost.
I have no doubt," said he, "that a kilogramme of radium would be sufficient to destroy the population of Paris, granting that they came within its influence.
The unit by which we measure quantities of heat is the calory, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogramme of water one degree Centigrade.
The practical unit of mechanical work is the kilogramme-metre, the work required to raise the weight of one kilogramme to the height of one metre.
Now we can calculate the difference of the work of the pump, and put at 1 kilogramme of condensed liquid the difference of mechanical work represented in kilogrammeters.
What is called a kilogrammeter is the force capable of lifting 1 kilogramme to 1 meter in height during 1 second.
The State impost here is one kilogramme of rubber each month from each man for which he is paid 40 or 50 centimes.
The people work well here,--the villagers collecting the usual kilogramme per month, while the workers in the plantations clear the forest and plant more rubber for future use.
It should be remarked that this capacity of 7,600 kilogrammeters per kilogramme is much greater than that of any other accumulator constructed in France.
To calculate the pressure developed by the explosion of dynamite in a bore-hole 3 centimetres in diameter, charged with 1 kilogramme of 75 per cent.
For parcels not exceeding 1 kilogramme the transit rate should in no case exceed 1 fr.
No one who had studied his character could be much surprised at the confession that was extorted from him, that for every supposed kilogramme that he had ever sold the true weight was only 750 grammes, or just five and twenty per cent.
The professor took the cube, and, on attaching it to the hook of the steelyard, found that its apparent weight was one kilogramme and four hundred and thirty grammes.
It is not my fault that the packet is short weight; but I cannot pay for a kilogramme except I have a kilogramme.
On the earth it would have registered a kilogramme as a kilogramme; here it recorded a different value altogether, as the result of the altered force of gravity.
And the very kilogramme weight you used would have become lighter," put in the count, deferentially.
He had to repeat the process with the sugar and coffee: for every kilogramme he had to weigh seven.
The current law defines the kilogramme as the standard of mass, and the law is certainly in conformity with the rather obscurely expressed intentions of the founders of the metrical system.
Elsewhere it is generally measured in kilogrammetres, or in terms of the work done in raising 1 kilogramme weight through the height of 1 metre.
Assuming that the sinking of a mercury column by which a gas was compressed was equivalent to the heat set free by the compression, he deduced that the warming of a kilogramme of water 1 deg.
Thus, a theoretical calculation seemed to indicate that a kilogramme of liquid carbonic acid would be an ample supply for a run of two minutes.
A weight of 1 kilogramme at the distance of 1 metre gave a deflection of 56 mm.
The French calculate that 1 kilogramme of mercury will furnish 1-1/4 kil.
The Parisian refiners restore to the owners the whole of the gold and silver contained in the ingots, reserving to themselves the copper which formed the alloy, and charging only the sum of 5-1/2 francs per kilogramme (2.
Had the use of steam at high pressure (7 atmospheres for example) been possible, it is easy to conclude from the above results that more than 6 kilogrammes of water would have been vaporized with one kilogramme of steam.
In other words, one kilogramme of motive steam is sufficient to convert into heating steam for the first evaporator 2.
The effect obtained, then, from one kilogramme of motive steam is, in round numbers, 5.
With this apparatus it has been found that the work furnished by one kilogramme of steam passing through the motive cylinder, from a pressure of 5 atmospheres to one of 1.
Besides, this same kilogrammeof motive steam produces three effects, one in this same evaporator, and the other two in the two succeeding ones.
Congestin exerts a sensitising or anaphylactic effect upon animals as regards thalassin, and is lethal in a dose of about 5 milligrammes per kilogramme of animal, and sometimes even in a dose of 7 decimilligrammes.
One kilogramme of anemones is capable of furnishing about 3 grammes of pure crystallised poison.
The toxicity of this substance is such that from 7 to 9 decimilligrammes per kilogramme represent the lethal dose for dogs, when injected subcutaneously.
When injected intravenously into dogs it produces pruritus, sneezing, and erythema, with intense congestion of the mucous membranes; 1 decigramme per kilogramme is a dose sufficient to produce these symptoms.
Separating a quantity of actinium from a kilogramme of ore, Boltwood observed a growth of 8.
On the hypothesis of direct parentage, it is easy to calculate that the amount of radium produced in a month by a kilogramme of a uranium salt would be enough to be detected easily by the radio-activity of its emanation.
The dimensions of the apparatus are such that each carbide-holder can contain readily about half a kilogramme (say l lb.
As the result of the foregoing researches Cedercreutz has recommended that in order to sample the contents of a drum, they should be tipped out, and about a kilogramme (say 2 to 3 lb.
Carbide which yields less than 270 litres of crude acetylene per kilogramme need not be accepted.
There are several units in use, but the one which will be employed throughout this book is the "Large Calorie"; a large calorie being the amount of heat absorbed in raising 1 kilogramme of water 1° C.
For every 1 kilogrammeof carbide the available gasholder space must be: for the first 50 kilos.
With deliveries of more than ten drums, the sample is to be drawn from not fewer than 10 per cent, of the lot, and from each of the unopened and undamaged drums drawn for the purpose not less than 1 kilogramme (= 2.
The results are stated in litres (at normal temperature and pressure) per kilogramme of carbide.
The kilogramme of iron falsely called a heart will never be anything more than a kilogramme of iron.
A reward of 50 centimes was given for every kilogramme of eggs, and half the sum for every kilogramme of insects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilogramme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
