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Word: Enthalpy
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 20th century: from Greek enthalpein ‘warm in’, from en- ‘within’ + thalpein ‘to heat’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈɛnθalpi
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɛnˈθalpi
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɪnˈθalpi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
Short Definition:thermodynamic quantity equivalent to total heat content of system
Variant Forms:
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