What happens to ice cubes if the latent heat of vaporization is removed?

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Truong-Son N.
Jun 25, 2017

Well, from #0^@ "C"# and #"1 atm"#, I guess they get colder...

Latent heat of vaporization is the heat input at constant pressure to vaporize a liquid. For liquid water going to water vapor, it is #+"40.67 kJ/mol"#. If you removed this much energy from ice, well, it only becomes colder ice...

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