heat of vaporization
Americannoun
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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
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
Take, for example, the fact that, at body temperature, perspiration from the skin requires a heat input of 2428 kJ/kg, which is about 10 percent higher than the latent heat of vaporization at 100ºC .
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The heat absorbed when the volume is increased corresponds with the latent heat of vaporization.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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