heat of vaporisation

1. 1.

   heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature

   Synonymsheat of vaporization

   Broaderlatent heat

Questions about heat of vaporisation

What does heat of vaporisation mean?

heat of vaporisation means "heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature".

What is another word for heat of vaporisation?

Close synonyms include heat of vaporization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heat of vaporisation a common word?

heat of vaporisation 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.