Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:45:55 +0100
From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.0 Turbo Engine Overfilled with Oil
Jeremy Brown wrote:
> The calorie is a metric unit, specifically it is the quantity of thermal
> energy required to raise one gram of water 1ƒC at 15ƒC.
Actually, the calorie is a quirk from the old and abandoned cgs ( centimetre
gram second ) system of metric units replaced in the more rationalised MKS (
metre kilogram second ) and the current SI ( syteme internationale ) by the
Joule which is 1 watt-second.
Graham
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