heat of formation

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   the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements

   Broaderheat

Questions about heat of formation

What does heat of formation mean?

heat of formation means "the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements".

Is heat of formation a common word?

heat of formation 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.