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
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
They are expressed in calories, which is a heat unit representing the quantity of fuel required to heat a certain small quantity of water a certain number of degrees.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
As he raised the glowing flap of his tent, Larkin saw Smith lounging in a chair before the electric heat unit.
From The Terrible Answer by Hill, Arthur G.
