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  • B.T.U.
    B.T.U.
    abbreviation
    British thermal unit; British thermal units.
  • BTU
    BTU
    abbreviation
    Board of Trade Unit
  • btu
    btu
    abbreviation
    British thermal unit
  • Btu
    Btu
    Abbreviation of British thermal unit

B.T.U.

American  
Or BTU,

abbreviation

Physics.
  1. British thermal unit; British thermal units.


BTU 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Board of Trade Unit

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btu 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. US abbreviation: BTU.  British thermal unit

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Btu Scientific  
  1. Abbreviation of British thermal unit


Example Sentences

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And with a 10,000 B.T.U. side-burner, it’s ready for anything.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2012

The amount of steam needed to produce a barrel of oil varies according to the age of the field, but 2 million B.T.U. per barrel is typical.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2011

GlassPoint said that at a full-size plant, its technology could produce steam at a cost of $3 per million B.T.U., compared with a market price of gas today of around $4 per million B.T.U.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2011

Business people The initials B.T.U. stand for British thermal unit, the basic measurement of heat in a given amount of energy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Calorific value per pound of coal 14200 B.T.U.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.