enthalpy

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Letters: 8

Pronunciation

/ˈɛn.θəl.piː/

Definition of enthalpy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, physical, uncountable)A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.

“H=U+pV, where H is enthalpy, U is internal energy, p is pressure, and V is volume.”

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-, “in”) + θάλπω (thálpō, “to warm”). Coined by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, but first used in print by J. P. Dalton in 1909 in a paper titled "Researches on the Joule-Kelvin-effect, especially at low temperatures".

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