That's the amount of heat you have to add to the solid form at the melting temperature
in order to melt it to the liquid form at the same temperature.
Looking at it the other way: It's the amount of heat you have to remove from the liquid
at the freezing temperature in order to freeze it solid at the same temperature.
The energy required to melt one gram of a substance is known as the heat of fusion.
The measurement of how much heat energy is required for a substance to melt is called the heat of fusion. It is the amount of energy required to change a substance from a solid to a liquid at its melting point.
The latent heat of fusion is defined as the heat energy required to convert a kg of a substance of liquid into solid of the same substance without a change of temperature. Q = mL where Q = Heat Energy in joules, m=mass of substance, L= Latent heat of fusion Taking units, [J] = [kg] [L] [L] = [J]/[kg] so units of latent heat of fusion are joules.kg-1
The heat of fusion is the energy required to change a substance from solid to liquid at its melting point, while the heat of vaporization is the energy required to change a substance from liquid to gas at its boiling point. Both values are specific to each substance and represent the amount of energy needed to break intermolecular forces during phase changes, with vaporization requiring more energy than fusion due to the additional change in state.
When changing from a solid to a liquid, melting, the heat absorbed is called the heat of fusion. When the reverse takes place, freezing, it is called the heat of solidification. For a single substance they are the same.
The energy required to melt one gram of a substance is known as the heat of fusion.
It explodes
The measurement of how much heat energy is required for a substance to melt is called the heat of fusion. It is the amount of energy required to change a substance from a solid to a liquid at its melting point.
It is called the enthalpy of fusion of a substance, also known as (latent) heat of fusion.
Because of the heat of fusion the ice is now water
The amount of heat required to melt one kilogram of a substance is known as the heat of fusion or the latent heat of fusion. It represents the energy needed to change a solid into a liquid at its melting point without a change in temperature.
The energy required to melt a substance
The latent heat of fusion is defined as the heat energy required to convert a kg of a substance of liquid into solid of the same substance without a change of temperature. Q = mL where Q = Heat Energy in joules, m=mass of substance, L= Latent heat of fusion Taking units, [J] = [kg] [L] [L] = [J]/[kg] so units of latent heat of fusion are joules.kg-1
That's the heat of fusion.
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The specific latent heat of fusion can be calculated by dividing the energy required to melt the substance by the mass of the substance. In this case, the specific latent heat of fusion would be (550 kJ) / (14 kg) = 39.29 kJ/kg.
The latent heat of fusion is the amount of heat energy required to change a substance from a solid to a liquid at its melting point. It is a physical property specific to each substance and is measured in joules per gram (J/g).