HEAT OF VAPORIZATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature

Synonyms:

heat of vaporisation; heat of vaporization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("heat of vaporization" is a kind of...):

heat of transformation; latent heat (heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure)

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