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Latent heat is the amount of heat needed to change a substance's state (Solid-Liquid-Gas), i.e, water boiling into steam or, the opposite, water freezing into ice. It is latent as it does not show up on a thermometer

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v t e States of matter
State	Solid Liquid Gas / Vapor Plasma
Low energy	Bose–Einstein condensate Fermionic condensate Strange matter Superfluid Supersolid Degenerate matter Quantum Hall Rydberg matter Rydberg polaron Photonic molecule
High energy	QCD matter Lattice QCD Quark–gluon plasma Color-glass condensate Supercritical fluid
Other states	Colloid Glass Crystal Liquid crystal Time crystal Dark matter Antimatter String-net liquid Magnetically ordered Ferromagnet Antiferromagnet Ferrimagnet Quantum spin liquid Exotic matter Programmable matter Superglass
Transitions	Boiling Boiling point Condensation Critical point Crystallization Deposition Evaporation Freezing Ionization Melting Melting point Sublimation Triple point Vaporization Critical line Flash evaporation Chemical ionization Lambda point Recombination Regelation Saturated fluid Supercooling Vitrification
Quantities	Enthalpy of fusion Enthalpy of vaporization Latent heat Latent internal energy Trouton's rule Volatility Enthalpy of sublimation
Concepts	Superconductivity Equation of state Baryonic matter Binodal Compressed fluid Cooling curve Leidenfrost effect Macroscopic quantum phenomena Mpemba effect Order and disorder (physics) Spinodal Superheated vapor Superheating Thermo-dielectric effect