Discuss why the temperature of a substance remains relatively constant during the freezing of...
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Discuss why the temperature of a substance remains relatively constant during the freezing of liquid to solid.
Latent Heat and Heat Capacity
When energy is added/removed to a specific substance, the two possible outcomes are (1) an increase/decrease in temperature and (2) a phase change. The former response is intuitive since adding/taking energy increases/decreases the average motion of the particles. In the latter case, the energy causes the particles to undergo a phase transition, e.g., freeze or boil.
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View this answerWhen a substance is cooled to a point where it undergoes freezing, the temperature stays approximately the same because the heat loss does not...
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