Definition of Heat of sublimation

1. Noun. Heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heat Of Sublimation

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heat of sublimation (current term)
heat of transformation
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Literary usage of Heat of sublimation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Principles of Physical Chemistry from the Standpoint by Edward Wight Washburn (1921)
"Heat of Sublimation.—The process of vaporization of a crystal, like that of a liquid, is attended by an absorption of heat and the amount of heat absorbed ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"From this information and the condensed-phase thermodynamic data of Läppert and Smith,6b we can evaluate the heat of sublimation, ..."

3. Theoretical and Physical Chemistry by Samuel Lawrence Bigelow (1912)
"Heat of Sublimation. The number of calories required to change one gram of a solid to a gas at the same temperature is called the heat of sublimation. ..."

4. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"If the mean specific heat of any solid is known between 18° and — 79° or — 186", it is easy to determine the heat of sublimation of solid COi, ..."

5. The Origin of Spectra by Paul Darwin Foote, Fred Loomis Mohler (1922)
"In the next step we allow the metal gas to condense, giving up the heat of sublimation SR, and the halogen atoms to combine into diatomic molecules, ..."

6. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"And similarly, the signs for the solution-heat of substances in the solid state are conditioned by the difference between their heat of sublimation and heat ..."

7. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"According to the particular nature of the systems considered q may represent the so-called heat of sublimation, heat of vaporization, heat of solution, ..."

8. Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry by Frederick Hutton Getman (1922)
"What is the heat of sublimation of ice at 0°? (NOTE. It follows from the first law of thermodynamics that the heat of sublimation at the freezing-point must ..."

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