 | Joseph Gerald Branch - Steam engineering - 1906 - 1016 pages
...is said to be 0.033. Q. What is latent heat? A. It is the heat that is expended in changing a body from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state. Q. What is sensible heat? A. It is that portion of the heat applied to a substance that... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Heat-engines - 1907 - 456 pages
...long as the temperature does not closely approach that at which a change of state is produced — as from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, or vice versa. The change in the volume of any substance caused by a change of temperature... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Boilers - 1912 - 542 pages
...39.2° contracts instead of expands. 9. Latent Heat. — The heat that is expended in changing a body from the solid to the liquid state or from the liquid to the gaseous state is called latent heat. The portion of the heat applied that raises temperature and that,... | |
 | James Thom Beard - Coal mines and mining - 1920 - 456 pages
...is called "sensible heat," because it is manifest to the senses. Latent Heat. — When matter passes from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, the change is always accompanied by the absorption .of a considerable amount of heat,... | |
 | Michael H. Gornston - Steam engineering - 1922 - 448 pages
...affects the thermometer, is called sensible heat. (b) The heat that is expended in changing a body from the solid to the liquid state or from the liquid to the gaseous state is called latent heat. 7. Define the term British thermal unit, or Btu A Btu is the quantity... | |
 | Philip Henry Mitchell - Human physiology - 1923 - 780 pages
...of water is equally important. By latent heat is meant the quantity required to change a substance from the solid to the liquid state or from the liquid to the gaseous condition without actually changing its temperature. It is equally well measured by the quantity... | |
 | William Harrison Motz - Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery - 1926 - 698 pages
...508.6 Btu Therefore the entropy is equal to 508.6H-529.6 = 0.960. Fusion. — When a substance changes from the solid to the liquid state or from the liquid to the solid state, the heat added or extracted is known as the latent heat of fusion. Thus when ice melts... | |
 | Albert Edward Caswell - Physics - 1928 - 802 pages
...burner method of page 123 we readily discover that the amount of heat supplied to convert a substance from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, or to affect any other change of state or form is directly proportional to the mass... | |
 | Albert Edward Caswell - Physics - 1928 - 200 pages
...Principle of the Experiment. One of the effects produced by imparting heat to a body is to change it from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state. The temperature at which the change occurs depends upon the nature of the substance... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Fisheries - Fish culture - 1936 - 1024 pages
...pound of water is 144 B. tu That is, 144 B. tu of heat must be either added or removed to change water from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the solid state at 32° F. Consequently, a ton of refrigeration represents the removal of 288,000 B. tu... | |
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The heat which is expended in changing a body from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, is called latent heat. 
