Joule-Thomson effect/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Joule-Thomson effect.

The increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is allowed to expand freely at constant enthalpy (meaning that no heat is transferred to or from the gas, and no external work is extracted from the gas).[

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