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ColdStream 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Yep, once you learn about Latent temperature fusion, ones view on these things change drastically.

It also explains why boiling water doesn't spontaneously just explode into vapor once it hits that temperature

aqfamnzc 27 days ago [–]

The concept of heat of fusion blew my mind when I learned about it in high school chemistry. Feels extremely counterintuitive at first.

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