Submitted by samskiter t3_zsiyxn in askscience
GenericUsername2056 t1_j18ov2h wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why do we use phase change refrigerants? by samskiter
>(which, if you Google and read a bit, will confirm that calling desublimation, fusion is an old phrase that is being replaced).
>if you suddenly called desublimation, fusion. We've not used fusion to refer to desublimation since the 70s.
Now I know for sure you don't know what you're talking about because desublimation is the phase transition from a vapour directly to a solid, not from a solid to a liquid. I was listing several types of latent heats earlier, not synonyms as you must've erroneously assumed.
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