1761

Latent heat

• Joseph Black measured the temperature and realized
• after he heated ice to melt it that its water was no warmer.
• The heat had gone into the ice but only changed its state.

Scotch

• Dr. Black was Scottish
• and discovered latent heat
• while working on commmission
• for a Scotch distillery
• to determine ideal quantities
• of fuel and water for distilling whisky.

Latent stuff

• Latent energy
• Latent sexuality
• Latent emotion
• Latent ability to please
• Latent sense of humor
• Latent desire for a pony
• Something latent
• in the eye of the beholder
• who hasn’t yet beheld
• Something latent
• in the ancient ediface
• a restoration could reveal
• A latent case
• of tuberculosis
• that hasn’t caused a cough
• I had always wanted
• to use the word endothermic
• or something like it
• A drunk evening lay
• in the amber liquid
• lying in the glass