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Re: Missing term



Fusion is the transition from a liquid to a solid. The counterpart to "fusion" is "melting". (I can't think of any synonym for "melting" that ends in "ion".) Also, I prefer the term "desublimation" to "deposition". Thus, I would list the phase transitions as follows:

vaporization - condensation
sublimation - desublimation
melting - fusion

Daniel Crowe
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Ardmore Regional Center
dcrowe@sotc.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cohen [mailto:Robert.Cohen@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:09 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Missing term

<snip>

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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