How does a Calorimeter work?

[canadian pride]

I'm doing a science experiment on Burning Calories, from your website, and I would just like to know how a Calorimeter work, simply.

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I'm doing a science experiment on Burning Calories, from your website, and I would just like to know how a Calorimeter work, simply.

Hello, canadian Pride!

Have you tried using a search engine, such as Google, to find the answer? Usually a bit of research on that type of question yields a very good answer. Wikipedia also is a good source of information for questions like yours. Check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter

Enjoy!

[canadian pride]

thanks a lot