heat of fusion

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   heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature

   “the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification”

   Broaderlatent heat

Questions about heat of fusion

What does heat of fusion mean?

heat of fusion means "heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature".

Is heat of fusion a common word?

heat of fusion 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.