enthalpy

Meaning

Noun

In thermodynamics, a measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐνθάλπω ("to warm in"). , 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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