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Temperature at which the last trace of crystallinity disappears upon heating.
Notes:
- This temperature usually refers to the highest temperature of the melting range, i.e., when the last and therefore the most perfectly ordered crystals or the largest crystals melt.
- An experimentally determined melting temperature is not necessarily identical with the equilibrium melting temperature. See equilibrium melting temperature and Hoffman–Weeks plot.
- Experimentally determined values of the melting temperature may depend on the method and the experimental conditions, for example, sample mass, heating rate, etc.
- If \(T_{\rm{m}}\) is determined using DSC or DTA, then the characteristic temperature (Figure 2) used should be stated.
See also: characteristic temperatures