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enthalpy

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enthalpy /en·thal·py/ (en´thal-pe) the heat content or chemical energy of a physical system; a thermodynamic function equal to the internal energy plus the product of the pressure and volume. Symbol H.
en·thal·py (nthlp, n-thl-)
n.
A thermodynamic function of a system, equivalent to the sum of the internal energy of the system plus the product of its volume multiplied by the pressure exerted on it by its surroundings.

enthalpy
the bond energy in a biochemical reaction.


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Their topics include data and models of water activity, predicting ice content in frozen foods, the gelatinization of starch, specific heat and the enthalpy of foods, the thermal conductivity of foods, measuring the surface heat transfer coefficient, and acoustic properties of foods.
Enthalpy relaxation of amorphous polymers has previously been observed under ambient pressure, and structural recovery has been used to explain this phenomenon (26-29).
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