kilocalorie

• “In order to standardize and have a clear idea of the value of each of these sources of energy, the terms kilocalorie or the conventional ton are used.”

  FIRST ENERGY FORMU

• “A Calorie aka kilocalorie is simply a unit of food energy.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU

• “Most people, when referring to the energy content of food, use "calorie" instead of "kilocalorie" - which is the actual unit that food energy is measured in.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “The kilocalorie is the unit of energy familiar to us from diet lists, and a mol is the unit that expresses the number of molecules.”

  EurekAlert! - Breaking News

• “SI prefixes are used with this name and symbol, so that the kilogram calorie is known as the "kilocalorie" and has the symbol kcal.”

  Calorie

• “Metric prefixes are used with this name and symbol, so that the kilogram calorie is known as the "kilocalorie" and has the symbol kcal.”

  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

• “The more accurate name for these is kilo calories—each kilocalorie is a thousand actual calories.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

• “In this book, we use the word “Calorie” with a capital C to designate a kilocalorie, and the word “calorie” in reference to energy in general.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU

• “Best of all, with our "human engines" burning a solid kilocalorie a day, our dietary choices were limitless.”

  Dan Worth: How I Lost 10 Pounds in 10 Days on the Climate Neutral Diet

• “The large calorie, or rather kilocalorie, is the amount of heat required at a pressure of one atmosphere to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by 1 °C.”

  Calorie

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