they are portable, and plus they are edible! It could be the perfect emergency kit. A large tin of nuts, a tin for water and a few matches, it could make millions. But what nut does burn best? Does it burn better ground or whole? These are some of the questions I hope to answer. To conduct a proper experiment, you need proper background so I have included a good deal of technical information with my research:Calorie is the metric unit of heat measurement. The small, or gram, calorie (cal) is usually specified in science and engineering as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water from 14.5 to 15.5 C. The temperature interval is sometimes specified in other ways. The definition now generally accepted in the United States, and standard in thermochemistry, is that 1 cal equals 4.1840 joules (J).A slightly different calorie is used in engineering, the international calorie, which equals 1/860 international watt-hour (W h). A large calorie, or kilocalorie (Cal), usually referred to as a calorie and sometimes as a kilogram calorie, equals 1000 cal and is the unit used to express the energy-producing value of food in the calculation of diets.Calorimetry is the science of measuring a quantity of heat (expressed in calories), as distinct from thermometry, the science of measuring the intensity of heat (expressed as temperature). A calorimeter is the instrument used to measure the amount of heat; one widely used type consists of an insulated container of water, a stirring device, and a thermometer. This is what I am recreating. A heat source is placed in the calorimeter, the water is stirred until equilibrium is reached, and the rise of temperature is noted by reading the thermometer. Therefore, because the heat capacity of the calorimeter is known (or can be measured by using a standard heat source), the amount of heat liberated can be readily calculated. In my experiment this is slightly harder due to less regulation...
