How to Use latent heat in a Sentence

latent heat

noun

• These electric climate-control units can suck heat out of the air — and there is always some latent heat available, even on a cold day — and transfer the warmth through their coils.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2021
• If the rubber is stretched quickly enough, the latent heat stays in the material and its temperature goes up.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
• The actual situation now is: 1) Many appliances now use heat pumps, in which most of the heat is extracted from the latent heat in the cold outside air.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
• The InSight Mission will look at Mars's seismic activity and latent heat to find out more about how planets get made--and how humans might live there.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 7 May 2018
• The moisture transfers, or latent heat, from the ocean to atmosphere are sustained over the warm eddies since the eddies are not significantly cooling.
  — Nick Shay, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2021
• As this release of latent heat continues, the central pressures continue to decrease.
  — Nick Shay, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2021
• Manabe and his collaborators also considered that, high up in the column, the air is colder, and so cloud drops form, releasing latent heat stored in the water vapor.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2021
• To summarize this chain of deductions, Langmuir proposed that seeding hurricanes would create ice and release latent heat; this in turn would widen the eye and reduce the destructive power of the storm.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Using the latent heat of fusion as the figure—the energy required to melt a substance—the authors ultimately calculated that the Sun would have melted Icarus’ wings in between 42 and 67 minutes.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2014
• At higher pressures, the boiling temperature increases while the latent heat shrinks.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• As well as conducting heat, wool also wicks away moisture vapor (which contains additional latent heat).
  — Outside Online, 4 May 2017
• When water vapor condenses to form clouds, latent heat (energy) is released, which helps storms intensify by warming the surrounding air and causing instability.
  — Molly Rubin, Quartz, 12 July 2019
• Air molecules heavy with moisture and sizzle soared on thunderstorm currents into Michael’s eye, releasing latent heat — an invisible smorgasbord of fuel for the burgeoning cyclone.
  — Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024