heat unit
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“It’s a huge thermos that helps us to store the heat when we don’t need it,” said Tanja Wielgoss, who heads the Sweden-based company’s heat unit in Germany.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2022
Their certified average Scoville heat unit of 1.56 million — from a rating procedure invented by American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in 1912 — was ultimately accepted by Guinness.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2014
Department of Agriculture.55.The calorie is the adopted heat unit.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
The heat unit is not a pound or yard, but a Calorie, or a definite quantity of heat, which, when applied to materials, will produce change of temperature in those materials.
From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes
They went into the larger of the two Tuareg tents, and Isobel poured water from a girba into the coffee pot which she placed on a heat unit, flicking its switch.
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack
