Usage examples (7)

• For instance, to mollify Democrats from energy-producing states, Clinton withdrew a proposed tax on B.T.U. consumption.
• Sludge, the solids that remain after sewage has been cleaned into effluent, has a high B.T.U. content (a measurement of fuel's energy); it burns efficiently and well.
• A pound of coal gives on a very conservative estimate ten thousand British thermal units (B.T.U.), and one B.T.U. furnished per second will give one and four-tenths horse-power...
• There will be from good coking coal about six thousand four hundred cubic feet of gas of five hundred B.T.U. per cubic foot, and this could be furnished to gas companies at...