Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index When a gas changes into a liquid it releases energy as heat. In the case of water forming as precipitation, rain or snow, the heat warms the ambient athmosphere. Different substances release different amounts of heat when they condense, benzene, for example, has a different specific heat of condensation than water. See phase (matter) for a technical treatment of the underlying phenomena Compare Published simultaniously on Internet-Encyclopedia as "Specific heat of condensation" http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Specific_heat_of_condensation This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.