It provides a means to determine experimentally the heat of vaporization,
which is the energy required to vaporize 1 mole of molecules in the liquid state.
If DHvap is known, and vapor pressure at one T is known, then
vapor pressure at a new T can be calculated.
or
Utility of the Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
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