If latent heat does not increase the movement or speed of particles then how does it help in conversion of state of matter?
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Because in solids and liquids, there are strongish bonds between particles. That’s definitionally true, because if the bonds between particles were too weak, it would be a gas.
So you need energy to break those bonds. That’s where the energy is going in a phase transition, to breaking the bonds between particles. Even though the speed of the particles is the same pre-transition and post, the energy is still being used.
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