Silicon has a relatively large latent heat of vaporization of 12800 J/g. This indicates that silicon has:

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Ellie Beasley

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26 January, 19:21

Silicon has a relatively large latent heat of vaporization of 12800 J/g. This indicates that silicon has:

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Having a large value of the latent heat of vaporization it would indicate that the substance requires that amount of energy in order to vaporize or turn into the gas phase. Therefore, for silicon, 12800 J is needed to be added to 1 gram of the substance to vaporize it.