 | Albert Edward Caswell - Physics - 1928 - 200 pages
...Principle of the Experiment. One of the effects produced by imparting heat to a body is to change it from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state. The temperature at which the change occurs depends upon the nature of the substance and the pressure... | |
 | Albert Edward Caswell - Physics - 1928 - 802 pages
...burner method of page 123 we readily discover that the amount of heat supplied to convert a substance from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, or to affect any other change of state or form is directly proportional to the mass of the substance... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Fisheries - Fish culture - 1936 - 1024 pages
...pound of water is 144 B. tu That is, 144 B. tu of heat must be either added or removed to change water from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the solid state at 32° F. Consequently, a ton of refrigeration represents the removal of 288,000 B. tu... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Steam engineering - 1913 - 344 pages
...COEFFICIENTS OF EXPANSION FOR VARIOUS SUBSTANCES Latent Heat. — The heat espended in changing a body from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, without change of temperature, is called its latent heat. The temperature at which a body changes from... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1858 - 672 pages
...present lecture was Heat of Condition, or ¡.aient Heat. It vas veil known that when a body passes from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous, a large amount of heat is absorbed, which i», however, again given out when the body reassumes the... | |
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The heat which is expended in changing a body from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, is called latent heat. 
