enthalpy.
A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.
Meaning & usage
A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.
Where this word comes from
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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