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Re: refrigerator

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Bob Sciamanda wrote:

An apropos tease question:

What is "a ton of air conditioning (or refrigeration)" and why is it so
called?

Last summer while shopping for central air conditioning, I found that
although room air conditioners are specified in BTU/hr, central air
conditioning units are specified in "tons of air conditioning". It took
a laborious net search and sending AC engineers back to their literature
to translate this specification. Who in Phys-L has the answer?

I spent a while just a few weeks ago searching the web for the answer to
precisely this question. I still like to think I could muster enough
resources to figure it out myself, but I'm busy now and surely someone
(Bob, if no one else) will soon enlighten me!

Eagerly,

John
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