What is latent heat of melting?

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We refer to latent heat as the hidden heat responsible for breaking the force of attraction between molecules during a state change (solid to liquid).
A substance's latent heat of melting is the amount of energy required to transform it from a solid state to a liquid.
This is also known as latent heat of fusion.

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