British Thermal Unit International Table

Preferred Label : British Thermal Unit International Table;

NCIt synonyms : BTU (IT); B.T.U. (IT); B.Th.U. (IT);

NCIt related terms : British thermal unit (international table); [Btu_IT];

CISMeF acronym : BTU;

NCIt definition : A non-SI unit of energy equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit at a constant pressure of one atmosphere. International Table British thermal unit is based on the definition of the International Table calorie (exactly 4.1868 J) at the Fifth International Conference on the Properties of Steam (London, July 1956), and is equal to 1.05505585262 kJ.;

Codes from synonyms : 13045;

Details

Origin ID

C69153;

UMLS CUI

C2347209;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- British thermal unit (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- international table British thermal unit [UCUM unit]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- international table British thermal unit [UCUM unit]
concept_is_in_subset
- HL7 Unit of Measure Terminology [NCIt concept]

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