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heat' of sublima'tion



Physics.
the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Cf. sublime (def. 10).

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

heat of solidificationheat of vaporization
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