The quantity of heat required to change a unit mass (or sometimes a mole) of a liquid to its vapor, the two phases remaining in equilibrium at constant temperature, most commonly the normal boiling point, i.e., the temperature of boiling at a pressure of 101.325 kPa. The convenient SI units are J/g, kJ/kg or kJ/mol. Because high polymers decompose without boiling, their heats of vaporization cannot be directly measured.
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Latent Heat of Vaporization. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_6795
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