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unusual facts about room temperature



Zirconium tungstate

This phase is thermodynamically unstable at room temperature with respect to the binary oxides synthesised by heating stoichiometric quantities of these oxides together and then quenching the material by rapidly cooling it from approximately 900 °C to room temperature.


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Autoeponym

Pirogov embalming technique: Nikolay Pirogov himself was preserved by methods he developed and his body is still on display in a room temperature glass-lid coffin in the Ukraine.

Drude model

This simple classical Drude model provides a very good explanation of DC and AC conductivity in metals, the Hall effect, and thermal conductivity (due to electrons) in metals near room temperature.

Enders SAMP/RAMP hydrazone-alkylation reaction

After 12 hours of reaction at room temperature, the crude alkylated hydrazone is allowed to react with ozone in a Schlenk tube to cleave the C=N bond.

Nitrene

The energy difference between triplet and singlet nitrenes can be very small in some cases, allowing interconversion at room temperature.

Optical media preservation

The ISO 9660 standard specifies a stable room temperature of 18 - 23 °C with relative humidity of 30% to 50%.

Resin casting

Styrene is a similar liquid monomer at room temperature, which will also polymerize into clear glass-like polystyrene plastic, with addition of a suitable catalyst.

Thermally Advantaged Chassis

Its main feature is a Chassis Air Guide that directs room temperature air directly in the path of the CPU fan and heat sink.