Comment on What has he done to deserve this?

• MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe the calorie is a derived unit while the Joule is a base unit.

  Somebody correct me if I’m wrong.

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  • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The calorie used to be the base unit, until we released in the 19th century “wait, heat isn’t a gas” and threw out caloric theory, and made the Joule. Now the calorie is defined as 4.184 Joules.

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    • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, you’re right. There have multiple iterations of the “metric system” since it’s introduction in 1892–1895, most notably the original 1795 draft variant, then the CGS (Centimeter-Gram-Second) version, then the MKS (meter-kilogram-second) variant, with the most recent incarnation being the International System of Units (SI).

      That’s why there are plenty of metric units, but not all of them are SI units.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s demonstrative anyway

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