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The latent heat of water is large compared with many other liquids, so giving impetus to James Watt's successful attempts to improve the efficiency of the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen.
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There are distinct differences between crystalline solids and amorphous solids: most notably, the process of forming a glass does not release the latent heat of fusion, but forming a crystal does.
The world ’ s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782-83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical change s ; calculations which were based on Joseph Black ’ s prior discovery of latent heat.
: denotes the latent heat with respect to volume, of the calorimetric material at constant temperature, while the pressure and volume of the material are allowed to vary freely, at volume and temperature.
The latent heat with respect to volume is the heat required for unit increment in volume at constant temperature.
For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.
The term ' latent heat of expansion ' is also used.
The latent heat with respect to volume can also be called the ' latent energy with respect to volume '.
For all of these usages of ' latent heat ', a more systematic terminology uses ' latent heat capacity '.
: denotes the latent heat with respect to pressure, of the calorimetric material at constant temperature, while the volume and pressure of the body are allowed to vary freely, at pressure and temperature ;
The quantity, the latent heat with respect to volume, belongs to classical calorimetry.
A simple example from the physical world is the heating of water: a one degree increase in temperature is a quantitative change, but between water of 100 degrees and steam of 100 degrees ( the effect latent heat ) there is a qualitative change.
An effective low cost method used in some small crop farms and plant nurseries, exploits a property of water known as latent heat of fusion.
C. As the water is deposited on the foliage it freezes, giving off its latent heat and preventing the temperature of the foliage falling below zero.
The reality is more complex: the atmosphere near the surface is largely opaque to thermal radiation ( with important exceptions for " window " bands ), and most heat loss from the surface is by sensible heat and latent heat transport.
Its latent heat of vaporization is also considerably lower at 0. 026 kilojoule per mole compared with the 0. 0829 kilojoule per mole of helium-4.
As the hailstone grows it releases latent heat, which keeps its exterior in a liquid phase.
He came to realize the importance of latent heat in understanding the engine, which, unknown to Watt, his friend, Joseph Black, had previously discovered some years before.
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* Deep water blackout for special case of latent hypoxia
The latent heat of water condensation amplifies convection, producing atmospheric phenomena such as wind, cyclones and anti-cyclones.
The Lower Heating Value of Hydrogen is total thermal energy released when hydrogen is combusted minus the latent heat of vaporisation of the water.
Secondly, the water temperature nears freezing, reducing overall latent heat energy available to produce squalls.
The salt water is cooled by the ice, and the action of the salt on the ice causes it to ( partially ) melt, absorbing latent heat and bringing the mixture below the freezing point of pure water.
As the water vapor condenses into liquid, latent heat is released, which warms the air, causing it to become less dense than the surrounding dry air.
Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water.
The resulting latent fingerprints consist usually of a substantial proportion of water with small traces of amino acids and chlorides mixed with a fatty, sebaceous component which contains a number of fatty acids and triglycerides.
This evaporation has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water.
If the water vapor condenses back to a liquid or solid phase onto a surface, the latent energy absorbed during evaporation is released as sensible heat onto the surface.
In meteorology, latent heat flux is the flux of heat from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere that is associated with evaporation or transpiration of water at the surface and subsequent condensation of water vapor in the troposphere.
* Deep water blackout-caused by latent hypoxia upon ascent from depth, where the partial pressure of oxygen in the lungs under pressure at the bottom of a deep free-dive is adequate to support consciousness but drops below the blackout threshold as the water pressure decreases on the ascent.
The reason for the difference between the dry and moist adiabatic lapse rate values is that latent heat is released when water condenses, thus decreasing the rate of temperature drop as altitude increases.
The heads are machined from a solid block of billet aluminum and have no water jackets, as the high latent heat of the methanol in the fuel coupled with the brevity of the run precludes the need for water cooling of the cylinder heads.
is the temperature a parcel of air would reach if all the water vapor in the parcel were to condense, releasing its latent heat, and the parcel was brought adiabatically to a standard reference pressure, usually 1000 hPa ( 1000 mbar ) which is roughly equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
The condensing water releases its latent heat to the surrounding air, partially offsetting the adiabatic cooling.
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More than anything, it is the therapist's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed, something like a spread-out deck of cards, on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient's and his months of work together.
However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.
" Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents in order to be content and complete.
Studies have shown that while test scores have improved over time, the improvement is not fully correlated with latent factors related to intelligence.
It has been proposed that children acquire these meanings with the use of processes modeled by latent semantic analysis ; that is, when they meet an unfamiliar word, children can use information in its context to correctly guess its rough area of meaning.
* Stage 0 ( latent ): The lymphatic vessels have sustained some damage which is not yet apparent.
The energy used for melting is a latent heat.
The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing.
Photographers control the camera and lens to " expose " the light recording material ( such as film ) to the required amount of light to form a " latent image " ( on film ) or " raw file " ( in digital cameras ) which, after appropriate processing, is converted to a usable image.
A latent infection results when the provirus is transcriptionally silent rather than active.
One of the main deficiencies in various factor analyses is a lack of consensus in cutting points for determining the number of latent factors.
Some provirus remains latent in the cell for a long period of time before it is activated by the change in cell environment.
Experiments indicate that the transition is second-order, meaning there is no latent heat.
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