John Payson wrote:

> ...someone not familiar with dietary measures might assume that a
> Life Savers(r) candy with 10 calories would have approximately enough energy
> to heat one gram of water ten degrees C; in fact, the candy has 1,000 times
> that much energy because the real dietary unit is the "kilocalorie" except
> that people shorten it to "calorie".


However, this does not mean that a Lifesaver will heat a gram of water
to 10,000 degrees...

-- Tom Rogers