"enthalpy" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɛn.θəl.piː/ Audio: en-us-enthalpy.ogg [US] Forms: enthalpies [plural]
Etymology: 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". Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|ἐν-|t=in}} Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-, “in”), {{m|grc|θάλπω|t=to warm}} θάλπω (thálpō, “to warm”), {{coin|en|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes|nat=Dutch|nobycat=1|occ=physicist}} Coined by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} enthalpy (countable and uncountable, plural enthalpies)
  1. (thermodynamics, physical chemistry) A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system. Wikipedia link: enthalpy Tags: countable, physical, uncountable Categories (topical): Energy, Physical chemistry, Thermodynamics Derived forms: enthalpic, enthalpimetry, enthalpogram, enthalpy of vaporization Related terms: Gibbs free energy Translations (a measure of the heat content): entalpia (Basque), entalpia [feminine] (Catalan), (hán) (Chinese Mandarin), entalpi [common-gender] (Danish), entalpio (Esperanto), entalpia (Finnish), lämpösisältö (Finnish), enthalpie [feminine] (French), Enthalpie [feminine] (German), ενθαλπία (enthalpía) [feminine] (Greek), entalpia (Hungarian), entalpi (Indonesian), エンタルピー (entarupī) (Japanese), энтальпия (éntalpiä) (Kazakh), អង់តាល់ពី (ʼɑngtalpii) (Khmer), hāwera (Maori), entalpi (Norwegian), آنتالپی (ântâlpi) (Persian), entalpia [feminine] (Polish), zawartość cieplna [feminine] (Polish), entalpia [feminine] (Portuguese), энтальпи́я (entalʹpíja) [feminine] (Russian), entalpía [feminine] (Spanish), entalpi [common-gender] (Swedish), sanginit (Tagalog), เอนทาลปี (een-tao-bpii) (Thai), เอนทัลปี (een-tao-bpii) (Thai), entalpi (Turkish), entanpi (Vietnamese)

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