heat of vaporization

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 vaporisation

   Broaderlatent heat

Questions about heat of vaporization

What does heat of vaporization mean?

heat of vaporization 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 vaporization?

Close synonyms include heat of vaporisation. 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 vaporization a common word?

heat of vaporization 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.