Hello, I found in Atkins textbook (9th edition) pp.65, the author writes that:
A note on good practice:
The attachment of the name of the
transition to the symbol Δ, as in
ΔvapH, is the modern convention.
However, the older convention,
ΔHvap, is still widely used. The new
convention is more logical because
the subscript identifies the type of
change, not the physical observable
related to the change.
What does the last sentence mean? Why the current notation is preferred?