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What Is The Significance Of Latent And Sensible Heat In Our Daily Lives?

Heat is a form of energy that a substance either absorbs or releases into its surrounding atmosphere. Basically, this energy is of two types, viz., latent heat and sensible heat. The entire syllabus of the   thermodynamic system   revolves around the properties and nature of these two terms.    Latent heat is something that deals with the phase change in the body. Whereas sensible heat is something that deals with the varying temperatures in the body.    As these terms look, too, scientific in nature, why should we head our attention to these? Such thoughts are genuine as we are very busy with our lifestyles, so why should we take an interest in these terms. Well, these terms directly relate to changes to our surrounding environment, such as the  water cycle of our ecosystem .   Latent Heat   Latent heat is defined as the energy absorbed or released by a substance during the phase change process. For a better understanding of this concept, we can relate to the example of water molecule