What is enthalpy a form of?

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Truong-Son N.
Jul 8, 2016

Enthalpy is technically a form of energy. We pretty much always use units of "kJ" or "kJ/mol" for it, and joules are a unit of energy.

In fact, enthalpy can be defined as heat flow at a constant pressure:

DeltaH = q_p

And heat flow is... well, thermal energy.

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