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Latent heat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The expression latent heat refers to the amount of energy released or absorbed by a chemical substance during a change of state that occurs without changing its temperature, meaning a phase transiti...
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Enthalpy of fusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The standard enthalpy of fusion (symbol: \Delta{}H_{fus} ), also known as the heat of fusion or specific melting heat , is the amount of thermal energy which must be absorbed or evolved for 1 ...
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Latent heat is the heat energy involved in the phase change of water. Latent heat is gained by water molecules when water evaporates. The heat added during evaporation is used to break hydrogen bonds between water molecules and does not raise the temperature of the water body.
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This is called a release of latent heat (e.g. when heat is subtracted from liquid water, the individual water molecules will slow down. They eventually slow down to the point at which the hydrogen bonds do not allow the liquid to rotate anymore.
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Latent heat, or hidden heat, is heat that is taken up and stored when a substance changes state from a solid to a liquid, from a liquid to a gas, or from a solid directly to a gas. It cannot be measured by a thermometer.
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B. Specific Heat Capacity and Latent Heat ... The specific latent heat of a substance is the quantity of heat energy required to change the state of a unit mass of a substance. ... The specific latent heat of fusion is the quantity of heat energy released when 1 kg of a substance solidifies (i.e. fuses) without changing...
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