True or False? A Calorie is a Calorie is a Calorie.

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    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    k8blujay2 wrote: »
    I'm sorry... but I thought a calorie was just a unit to measure energy... you know like a Joule... or a Pascal or a Watt..

    Definition of a Calorie: The calorie equals the amount of thermal energy necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 Celsius degree, at a pressure of 1 atm.

    ETA: atm stands for atmospheres which is a unit of pressure.

    Yes, but is an atmosphere and atmosphere? I guess that's an entirely different thread.

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