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calorie

Unit of energy; amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree C (unit on Celsius temperature scale). See also kilocalorie.

Subject: 
Environmental Science [1]
Vocabulary: 
Chapter 3 - Science, Systems, Matter & Energy [2]
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