enthalpy

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enthalpy

/ˈɛn.θəl.piː/

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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".

noun enthalpies

countable, physical, uncountable A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system. H=U+pV, where H is enthalpy, U is internal energy, p is pressure, and V is volume.

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noun a measure of the heat content

Español	entalpía
日本語	エンタルピー entarupī
中文	焓 hán
हिन्दी	एंथैल्पी enthailpī, पूर्ण ऊष्मा pūrṇ ūṣmā
Português	entalpia
Français	enthalpie
Deutsch	Enthalpie
Ελληνικά	ενθαλπία enthalpía
Русский	энтальпи́я entalʹpíja
Tiếng Việt	entanpi

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@misc{enthalpy_2026,
  title = {enthalpy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/enthalpy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}