heat of dissociation

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   the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents

   Broaderheat

Questions about heat of dissociation

What does heat of dissociation mean?

heat of dissociation means "the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents".

Is heat of dissociation a common word?

heat of dissociation 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.