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enthalpy

ent·halpy

UK/ˈɛn.θəl.piː/ uncommon

noun

1.

(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure

  • “enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work”
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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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