Question

What is the latent heat of vaporization?

Answer 1

Latent heat:

• The amount of heat that is required for a phase change of a substance without any change in temperature is known as latent heat.

Latent heat of vaporization:

• “The amount of heat that is needed to convert a unit mass of liquid substance into a gaseous phase at constant temperature conditions is known as latent heat of vaporization.”
• An example of the process that involves latent heat of vaporization is the conversion of liquid particles into water vapors.