calorie per gram
Specific latent heatexact by definition
The calorie per gram is the historical metric unit of latent heat, equal to exactly 4184 J/kg using the thermochemical calorie of 4.184 joules. The factor is exact by definition of that calorie. In these units water's heat of fusion is about 80 cal/g and its heat of vaporisation about 540 cal/g, two numbers that generations of chemistry students memorised.
Watch out: Several calories differ by roughly one part in a thousand. This catalog uses the thermochemical calorie of exactly 4.184 J; the International Table calorie is 4.1868 J. Older tables rarely say which they mean.
| 1 | 4,184 |
One calorie per gram in every specific latent heat unit
| 4,184 | joule per kilogram (J/kg) | |
| 1,399.77 | foot pound-force per pound (ft·lbf/lb) | |
| 4.184 | kilojoule per kilogram (kJ/kg) | |
| 4.184 | joule per gram (J/g) | |
| 1.7988 | BTU per pound (BTU/lb) | |
| 1.16222 | watt-hour per kilogram (W·h/kg) | |
| 1 | calorie per gram (cal/g)this unit | |
| 1 | kilocalorie per kilogram (kcal/kg) | |
| 0.004184 | megajoule per kilogram (MJ/kg) | |
| 0.00116222 | kilowatt-hour per kilogram (kW·h/kg) |
Solvers that use specific latent heat