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calorie, a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food

unit of measurement, unit of energy
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
Equivalent to
4,184 and joule
Class
unit of energy, unit of measurement
Canonical Unit For
is the calorific value of a
The Canonical Unit For The Class
amount of energy
Wordnet Synset ID
"113726562"
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000ef42"
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Calorie
Rare Terms
"kilocalories", "calorific", "calories", "caloric"
Aliases
"cal", "calorie"
Unique Denotational String
"calorie"
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/01wv2"
Tell me what you know about The calorie (or gram calorie), the pre-SI metric unit of energy, defined as the amount of energy required to heat one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
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A calorie, or kilocalorie, is a unit used to measure energy. Specifically, a calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius.
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