heat of vaporization
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The amount of heat required to convert a liquid into a gas at constant temperature and pressure. A gas releases the same amount of heat when it becomes liquid.
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Compare heat of fusion
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Third, the high heat of vaporization of water allows animals to cool themselves by sweating.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Water also exhibits a high heat of vaporization, which is key to how organisms cool themselves by the evaporation of sweat.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Water’s hydrogen bonds also contribute to its high heat capacity and high heat of vaporization, resulting in greater temperature stability.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It would be expected, therefore, that the heat of vaporization would be greater than that of 9.8 kJ/mol for CO2.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Thermodynamics will furnish us, in addition, with the expression of the heat of vaporization and of, the specific heats of the two saturated fluids.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
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