What is a calorie?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Evolution of Calorimetry
The same process is what's happening in our bodies. It's just that we're not burning it in our stomachs. We are just getting all the energy out that our bodies can get out in a different way. And so basically they get the food that they're burning to do that and see how much it heats up the water. Then they use that as the standard for how much energy is in the food that we're eating. Right.
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