Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

volumetric latent heat of fusion

Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/ipaglossary/t0390

Within: IPA Permafrost Glossary

Definition: The amount of heat required to melt all the ice (or freeze all the pore water) in a unit volume of soil or rock.

Term volumetric latent heat of fusion en
Comment When the phase change occurs over a range of temperature, then the latent heat manifests itself as an apparent (large) increase in the heat capacity. en
dcterms:source https://doi.org/10.4224/20386561 xsd:anyURI

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