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Calorie vs Jule - What's the difference?

calorie | jule |


As a noun calorie

is (physics and chemistry, obsolete ) the gram calorie or small calorie, a non-si unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 42 joules this unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °c.

As a proper noun jule is

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Jule vs Erg - What's the difference?

jule | erg |


As a proper noun jule

is .

As a noun erg is

the unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter equal to 10−7 joules or erg can be (geomorphology) a large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the sahara.