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Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
Are you saying, John, that to accept two different values of L (one for
evaporation without boiling and another with boiling) would
automatically lead to the violation of conservation of energy?
To zeroth order, yes.
To first order in small quantities, there is *some*
dependence of L on temperature and pressure. BC
suggested it would depend mightily, but I say it
depends only slightily. The molar entropy and molar
enthalpy of the vapor are nice smooth continuous
indeed differentiable functions in this regime.