Specific Latent Heat Flashcards

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What is specific latent heat?

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The amount of heat energy required to melt or boil 1kg of a material

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What does latent mean?

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Hidden

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What is need to melt or boil a substance?

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Energy

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Why doesn’t the temperature of a material change when it’s at the point of boiling,melting or freezing (changing state)?

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Because only energy is needed

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Why doesn’t the temperature of water change during melting and boiling?

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Because the energy supplied is used to break the intermolecular bonds as the water molecules change state from solid to liquid and liquid to gas

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