Quantity measuring the energy per unit of mass or volume that some substance releases upon oxidation.
1The total heat of combustion in 1 lb of water evaporated:
2A portion of the heat of combustion is conveyed up the chimney in the waste gases.
3The fuel is consumed in my body, but the heat of combustion is produced outside my body.
4To be perfect, a boiler should so utilize all the heat of combustion, but there are no perfect boilers.
5This or a similar calorimeter is used in the determination of the heat of combustion of solid or liquid fuels.
6W. G. Mixter has determined the heat of combustion of acetylene to be 312.9 calories at constant volume, and 313.8 at constant pressure.
7The heat of combustion of acetylene was found by J. Thomson to be 310.57 large calories per gramme-molecule, and by Berthelot to be 321.00 calories.
8(F) Total heat of combustion of coal.
Translations for heat of combustion