heat of sublimation

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   heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state

   Broaderlatent heat

Questions about heat of sublimation

What does heat of sublimation mean?

heat of sublimation means "heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state".

Is heat of sublimation a common word?

heat of sublimation 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.