Talk:Latent heat

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Am I correct to question the "i.e. Temperature" part of the article?

Dylan Shell 09:22, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

From my admittedly limited understanding, I believe you are correct. I'll remove your commentary and the reference to temperature and instead wikify internal energy. Thanks for bringing that up, and welcome to Wikipedia! -- Hadal 09:36, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I am a little confused. According to the article, it says solid to gas is endothermic whereas gas to solid to exothermic. Shouldn't it be the other way round?

Dan

Look at it from the point of view of the solid sublimating or liquid evaporating. That material must absorb energy to change phase from solid->liquid->gas. It absorbs energy from its surroundings (cooling them) and is thus in an endothermic process.

Alex. 05:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latent heat as a function of pressure/temperature

Does the latent heat of a substance change as the pressure increases? Presumably past the critical point it is 0, does it move steadily towards 0 as we move up the gas-liquid curve, or does it drop off non-linearly? njh 11:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Latent heat and global warming

Has anyone calculated the amount of latent heat required to melt the icecaps? And what about the time it may take to absorb all that latent heat.. How far has the process gone? Gregorydavid 15:57, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] section line

the line under one of the sections cuts into the template on the right (at least in firefox). Is there a clean way to make the line shorter? Ojcit 21:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)