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latent heat

noun as in specific heat

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Green spaces and cool colors in a city turn more sensible heat into latent heat, Martilli and his colleagues find.

Plants trap sensible heat and turn it into latent heat — the energy that turns liquid water into water vapor.

That high-pressure engines owed their advantages mainly to a reduction of the relative importance of this latent heat.

In descending it is recondensed, and by the process by which its atoms are brought together its latent heat is made sensible.

Dr. Blacks discovery of latent heat, however, has afforded a very easy and natural explication of this phenomenon.

Cavendish knew of the suggestion, but in his experiments refuted the idea that the hydrogen lost any of its latent heat.

Because of the liberation of the latent heat from the precipitated vapour.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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