Practice question · True or false
The latent heat of a transition is zero at the critical point.
Hints
- What is the difference between the two phases at the critical point?
- They have become identical, so there is nothing to rearrange.
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True
Why
True, at the critical point the phases become identical, so and both vanish and . The transition changes continuously from first-order to nothing at all as the critical point is approached.
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