noun (plural calories)

• either of two units of heat energy:.
• (also small calorie)(abbreviation: cal)the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1°C (now usually defined as 4.1868 joules).
• (also large calorie)(abbreviation: Cal)the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water through 1°C, equal to one thousand small calories and often used to measure the energy value of foods.

This is not valid, you cannot raise the temperature of something through 1°C, you can however raise it by 1°C.

Whilst our American cousins may have their own unique way of speaking the English language, it astonishes me to find such Americanism’s in the Oxford English Dictionary.