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latent heat

潜热,潜伏热,潜在热

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Physics.

    • : heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at constant temperature and pressure.

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Examples

  • Green spaces and cool colors in a city turn more sensible heat into latent heat, Martilli and his colleagues find.

  • Plants trap sensible heat and turn it into latent heat — the energy that turns liquid water into water vapor.

  • But while he was up there riffing about Steiger, he looked like he did in the Big Heat.

  • The movie we went to that Friday night in 1953 was The Big Heat.

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

  • While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.

  • Remove from heat and stir in the walnuts, rum, powdered sugar, and salt until fully incorporated.

  • The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds.

  • It was very warm, and for a while they did nothing but exchange remarks about the heat, the sun, the glare.

  • Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.

  • A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.

  • Captain Vane came from the observatory, his face blazing with excitement and oily with heat, to announce the fact.