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Engineering ToolBox > Metals and Latent Heat of Fusion
The latent heat of fusion is the heat supplied to a solid body at the melting point.
Latent heat of fusion for some metals are indicated below:
| Metal | Latent Heat of Fusion | |
| (kJ/kg) | (cal/g) | |
| Aluminum | 398 | 95 |
| Antimony | 161 | 38.5 |
| Beryllium | 1356 | 324 |
| Bismuth | 51.9 | 12.4 |
| Cadmium | 55 | 13.2 |
| Chromium | 331 | 79 |
| Cobalt | 25 | 66 |
| Copper | 205 | 49 |
| Gold | 63 | 15 |
| Iridium | 138 | 33 |
| Iron | 272 | 65 |
| Lead | 23 | 5.5 |
| Magnesium | 368 | 88 |
| Manganese | 268 | 64 |
| Mercury | 11.3 | 2.7 |
| Molybdenum | 289 | 69 |
| Nickel | 297 | 71 |
| Niobium | 285 | 68 |
| Osmium | 142 | 34 |
| Platinum | 100 | 24 |
| Plutonium | 12.6 | 3 |
| Potassium | 61 | 14.5 |
| Rhodium | 167 | 50 |
| Selenium | 67 | 16 |
| Silicon | 1926 | 430 |
| Silver | 111 | 26.5 |
| Sodium | 113 | 27 |
| Tantalum | 172 | 41 |
| Thorium | 71 | 17 |
| Tin | 59 | 14.1 |
| Titanium | 419 | 100 |
| Tungsten | 193 | 46 |
| Uranium | 50 | 12 |
| Vanadium | 410 | 98 |
| Zinc | 113 | 27 |