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Definitions of calorific in various dictionaries:
adj - heat-generating
Relating to or generating heat or calories.
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Relating to or generating heat or calories. |
relating to the amount of energy contained in food or fuel. |
heat-generating |
Relating to the amount of energy contained in food or fuel. |
relating to calories ( units of energy provided by food): |
containing a lot of calories: |
Calorific might refer to |
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A calorie is a unit of energy. Various definitions exist but fall into two broad categories. The first, the small calorie, or gram calorie (symbol: cal), is defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere. The second, the large calorie or kilogram calorie (symbols: Cal, kcal), also known as the food calorie and similar names, is defined in terms of the kilogram rather than the gram. It is equal to 1,000 small calories or 1 kilocalorie (symbol: kcal).Although these units relate to the metric system, all of them have been considered obsolete in science since the adoption of the SI system. The unit of energy in the International System of Units is the joule. One small calorie is approximately 4.2 joules (so one large calorie is about 4.2 kilojoules). The factor used to convert calories to joules at a given temperature is numerically equivalent to the specific heat capacity of water expressed in joul |