heat_of_formation has definitions from the field of physics
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[ noun ] (physics) the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements

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(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

This work gave a heat_of_formation of aluminum fluoride which closely substantiates a value which had been determined by a less direct method , and raises this property to 15 percent above that accepted a_few years ago .

Similar measurements are being initiated to resolve a large discrepancy in the heat_of_formation of another important combustion product , beryllium fluoride .

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