Re: Missing term

[Robert Cohen <Robert.Cohen@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU>]

Larry Cartwright wrote:

> If you are implying that the everyday usage of "vaporization" 
> is more general than its thermodynamics usage, I agree.

Yes, and I suppose I just caught myself doing the same...

> The energy involved in 
> this process (and its condensatory reverse) is *universally* 
> called "heat of vaporization" in English-language physics books, yes?

Good point.

But now I've got more questions.  

If "heat of fusion" is the energy involved in the melting/freezing
process, what is the missing term below?

vaporization - condensation
sublimation - deposition
fusion - ??

And, if vaporization refers to the liquid to vapor transition and
sublimation refers to the solid to vapor transition does "fusion"
refer to the solid to liquid transition?

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