How to Use joule in a Sentence

joule

noun

• The joule is the watt-second, in contrast to the watt-hour or kilowatt-hour.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• So that gives you a rough feeling for the amount of energy in a joule.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
• One joule is about the amount of electricity used to light a one-watt LED for one second.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2022
• Baseball-sized hail could have an impact energy of over 100 Joules.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 8 May 2012
• The billion billionth time that Twitter is refreshed, the bird will return to her original form and ascend to the sky, borne aloft by a billion billion joules of subtweets.
  — Sara Lautman, The New Yorker, 25 May 2017
• There were no standard units of electricity back then, but modern estimates indicate that a pint-sized Leyden jar would have had the energy of about 1 joule.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2019
• Yes, the years, the joules, every galvanizing essence, is ultimately limited.
  — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
• However, in an interesting twist, scientists also found that cooking with a smaller flame produced more benzene per joule of gas consumed.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• Across the full cycle, the yarn could generate more than 40 joules of energy, although it was distributed unevenly, as the stretching and relaxation created a sine wave of alternating current.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2017
• The sievert is a unit that measures the amount of radiation absorbed by a person—while accounting for the type of radiation and its impact on particular organs and tissues in the body—and is equivalent to one joule of energy per kilogram of mass.
  — Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 14 July 2021
• As the beams move through a series of amplifiers, their energy increases exponentially: From beginning to end, the beams' total energy grows from one-billionth of a joule to four million joules, increasing by a factor of more than a quadrillion.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• All-in, the robot has a specific energy of over 1,000 joules per kilogram, which is enough to propel it about an order of magnitude higher than even the best biological jumpers, and easily triples the height of any other jumping robot in existence.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2023
• Someone absorbing four grays (equivalent to four joules of radiation energy per kilogram of body weight) would have a 50 percent chance of dying, but people sheltering in bigger buildings would receive smaller doses.
  — Sébastien Philippe, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Using nonvolatile memory devices and two fundamental physical laws of electrical engineering, simple circuits can implement a version of deep learning's most basic calculations that requires mere thousandths of a trillionth of a joule (a femtojoule).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024