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The enthalpy of fusion, or Specific heat of fusion/melting is the temperature that it takes for a substance to freeze/melt. Generally it is much greater than it would ordinarily take for the substance to increase 1 degree Celsius in either solid or liquid phase.

So, while at the freezing/melting point, the substance can absorb energy without changing the temperature during the state change.

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