Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: What's BTU?

Hi!  Can someone tell me what BTU stands for?  I know I can look it up on
Google, but please don't make me..  I'm on vacation now.
ciao
Arianna

 Google, but please don't make me..  I'm on vacation now.
British Thermal Unit
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 Google, but please don't make me..  I'm on vacation now.
Here we go! Choose the one which best fits in the context.
 	BTU British Thermal Unit 
        BTU Baltimore Teachers Union 
        BTU Basic Terminal Unit 
        BTU Basic Transmission Unit 
        BTU Better They Understand 
        BTU Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia - Bintulu (Airport Code) 
        BTU Board of Trade Unit 
        BTU Bus Terminal Unit 
Max

 Here we go! Choose the one which best fits in the context.
I suspect I should have written "fits the context", right?
Max

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Well, Ari, normally it stands for British Thermal Unit, defined as the
quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 lb (0.45 kg) of
water from 59.5° F (15.3° C) to 60.5° F (15.8° C) at constant pressure of 1
atmosphere; it's equivalent to 1055 joules; in engineering, a Btu is
equivalent to approximately 0.293 watt-hour.
Every time that I incur in the BTU, I can't help to imagine an English
scientist at tea time in his lab with his small kettle, thinking 'Well, I
decided to define the thermal unity in terms of heat required to change the
temperature of something of a certain amount, but, what can I use as a
standard reference ? Ah, yes, I see...."
But...BTU can also stand for Baltimore Teachers Union, and this could be
also pertinent to your business.
And also
BTU  Basic Terminal Unit
BTU  Basic Transmission Unit
BTU  Better They Understand
BTU  Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia - Bintulu (Airport Code)
BTU  Board of Trade Unit
BTU  Bus Terminal Unit
Better They Understand ? :-)
Ciao, Ari, buone vacanze
Giorgio

Thanks to Ron and Max for the quick response.  It must be a "thermal unit"
because the salesman who sold a gas range to me yesterday was trying to talk me
into buying a more expensive model with more BTUs.  Of course, I pretended I
knew what he was talking about but told him that a self cleaning oven and not
BTUs was on top of my priority list.
bye
Arianna

equivalent to approximately 0.293 watt-hour.
Giorgio, I am impressed.... Now I know everything about BTUs.  Your post
reminded me of a little joke (which you probably know):
What's a joule per second?
ciao
Ari 


 God wot.
Max

 God wot.
What?
Ari

  told him that a self cleaning oven and not BTUs was on top of my priority list.
I think you will notice the difference the first time you are trying to cook a lot
of spaghetti in a wide pan of water.  Some stoves can barely keep a boil going
under those conditions.  Larger burners (meaning more BTUs delivered) will do a
better job there.  They also distribute the heat more widely when sautéing.  Ever
have to move the browned items out to the edges and the unbrowned items to the
center?  Some stoves have two sizes of burners, that's what I'd buy (self cleaning
of course.)
Buon appetito,
Rick

On 2 Aug 2001, GFCARRERA wrote:
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God wot what a Watt is.
Max

 Max
What does a dyne centimeter say?     "ERG!"
(A dying centimeter, get it?)    (This memory aide has stuck with me for
30 years.)
Rick

il 02 Aug 2001 16:22:56 GMT, 
gfca...@aol.com
 (GFCARRERA) ha
scritto:
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but that's unbelievable
boy that's ugly.. 
oh you mean seriously, what! and no context given....
British thermal unit/s
-- 
  Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare

 see...."
Just what were you meaning in the above sentence  "Every time that I
incur in the BTU,"? incur? Do you mean to suffer with?
Cheers,
Loki

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 incur in the BTU,"? incur? Do you mean to suffer with?
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: in·curred, in·cur·ring, in·curs
1. To acquire or come into (something usually undesirable); sustain:
incurred substantial losses during the stock market crash. 2. To become
liable or subject to as a result of one's actions; bring upon oneself: incur
the anger of a friend.
 I admit that I should have said 'incur the BTU', since it's a transitive
verb, but the meaning n.1 suits my intentions. You have to take in account
that one of my closest relatives was a prominent metrologist, particularly
in the field of heat and temperature, so, since I was a kid, I was taught
the SI Units is Good and the rest is Evil. There was a time when I
considered to become a metrology missionary and travel through the most
abandoned countries, let's say the Sussex, to bring to that poor souls the
Good Word of the International Temperature Scale. I dreamt of seeing the day
on which Scotland Yard would have changed its name to Scotland Meter.
But now I am by far more tolerant, since I discovered that it's more
convenient to drink a pint than half liter.
Ciao
Giorgio

English scientist...
I think you will find that the word "incur" is rarely used
outside the phrases:
To incur a loss
.. a penalty
.. a fine
.. someone's wrath
Or very similar ones.
I would say, "Every time I COME ACROSS the BTU, I can't help
BUT imagine..." or "I can't help IMAGINING..."
J

British Thermal Units
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I am emailing
you the chapters on ""Energy, Work, Amount of Heat" and "Power" from the
book "Geigy Scientific Tables" as TIF files.
--
Xakero
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