Usage examples (28)

• In order to standardize and have a clear idea of the value of each of these sources of energy, the terms kilocalorie or the conventional ton are used.
• The kilocalorie is the unit of energy familiar to us from diet lists, and a mol is the unit that expresses the number of molecules.
• Most people, when referring to the energy content of food, use "calorie" instead of "kilocalorie" - which is the actual unit that food energy is measured in.
• SI prefixes are used with this name and symbol, so that the kilogram calorie is known as the "kilocalorie" and has the symbol kcal.