heat of condensation

1. 1.

   heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid

   “the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization”

   Broaderlatent heat

Questions about heat of condensation

What does heat of condensation mean?

heat of condensation means "heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid".

Is heat of condensation a common word?

heat of condensation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.