enthalpy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐνθάλπω (“to warm in”).

Pronunciation

Wikipedia

• IPA: /ˌenˈθal.piː/, X-SAMPA: /%en"Tal.pi:/

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Noun

enthalpy (countable and uncountable; plural enthalpies)

1. (physics) In thermodynamics, a measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.

   $H = U + p V$, where H is enthalpy, U is internal energy, p is pressure, and V is volume.

Translations

a measure of the heat content

• German: Enthalpie (de) f
• Greek: ενθαλπία (el) (enthalpía) f
• Hungarian: entalpia (hu)
• Norwegian: entalpi (no)

• Polish: entalpia f, zawartość cieplna f
• Russian: энтальпия (ru) (ental'píja) f
• Spanish: entalpía f
• Turkish: entalpi (tr)

See also

• Gibbs free energy