heat of solution

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   the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent

   Broaderheat

Questions about heat of solution

What does heat of solution mean?

heat of solution means "the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent".

Is heat of solution a common word?

heat of solution 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.