Talk:Room temperature

message: Red wine is supposed to be drunk at *cellar temperature* not room temperature, a good 10 degrees lower. Deleted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.175.202 (talk) 06:54, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But uncapitalized plural is correct? Femto 11:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

text: The proper form is not to pluralise it so the point is moot. 79.77.119.165 (talk) 13:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As noted at Kelvin, since a kelvin is not measured relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales, but is rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically, it is indeed correct to use the plural form for more than 1 kelvin, just as the word "degrees" should not be used.  I fixed it.  ★NealMcB★ (talk) 19:10, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems

message: Where do you get the standard room temperature is 22 °C?  I more often see 20 °C called standard room temperature, and have seen other values as well--but I don't recall ever having seen 22 °C called by that name.  Gene Nygaard 02:37, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Whose standard?

message: - human comfort is a debatable subject.
I'm from caribbean, living on USA (south florida 8-D ),  and I prefer something around 78°F (25°C) inside or  90°f (32°C) and up outside, to "feel comfortable".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.213.180.253 (talk) 15:57, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm perfecly comfortable naked in my room at 26-27°C, but I need body full clothing when it's 20°C or less in my basement room near the cold ground at this time of year. I think a section on human comfort would be appropriate in this article, so I've halved Cheriyan's above question and put it together with mine. 72.136.196.113 06:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

text: "By law, residential owners must provide sufficient heat between October 1..."  By whose law?  I'm asuming that is some United States law due to the use of Fahrenheit.  But where in the US?  Is it a national law, state level, or something else?  Is it a statute, a common law, a regulation?  It sounds practical and I agree it is a fair statement, but you need to cite that.  This link states a law for Connecticut (and a few others) that is similar in purpose, but different in numbers. --Trakon 08:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

text: This depends on local climate and the acclimatisation of the individual.  Personally based in northern England I find 20°C a little on the warm side.  That is not an uncommon opinion around here.  Too cold to type would be below about 15°C.  In short you can't make hard and fast rules about such things. 79.77.119.165 (talk) 13:06, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Agreed - I'm also in northern England; the temperature in this room is now dropping below a comfortable level for wearing a tshirt (our boiler's broken and it's snowing outside), and is at 14.6°C. Normally I'd keep it at 16-17° or so - although I'd say that it's still easily warm enough at 14.6° to type :-) --82.70.156.254 (talk) 18:46, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You guys wear t-shirts at 15°C?! Are you hyperthyroid or something? :-P WACGuy (talk) 01:15, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always considered "room temperature" to be 61°F, approx 16°C, that's what I recall being marked on thermometers here in the UK (before they started being imported). 15°C is certainly fine to be wearing a T-shirt in; many people from Northern England wear T-shirts outdoors all year round! 109.176.133.116 (talk) 13:04, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Human comfort

message: A minor quibble, but surely Kelvin - the SI unit of temperature - should be mentioned before the Rankine or "absolute Fahrenheit" scale which is virtually unheard-of outside the USA
: Even in the US where I am, reading about computational physics a lot, I've never seen that unit 98.119.149.245 (talk) 15:41, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  who is Rankine? 

message: It says 20 to 23 degrees C but 293 to 298 K. There is a mistake here.
If there is a mistake, please correct it and cite it if possible or required. Thebestkiano 15:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected upper temp.  K=C+273  --BlindEagletalk~contribs 16:27, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range 

message: I have just a small problem with this statement:
"A study carried out at the University of Uppsala (Sweden)[2], on indoor air quality and subjective indoor air quality (SIAQ) in primary schools, states that perception of high room temperature was related to a poor climate of cooperation. To achieve a good SIAQ, it recommends room temperature should be at a maximum of 22.0 °C (71.6 °F)."
The way this idea is stated infers that the poor climate of cooperation may lead to the perception of high room temperature, or vice versa. It's simply a correlational study, which I don't think has much to do with the premise of the article. Niubrad 06:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content 

message: We're talking about room temperature here, why not only use units that I'm sure 99% of the human population use to measure temperature, Fahrenheit and Celsius. I think adding Kelvins and Rankine is just too much unnecessary info. Wikidan829 (talk) 02:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Kelvin is one thing, but Rankine? That scale is irrelevant to almost everyone, with the exception of a few U.S. engineering fields. Kelvin is used throughout science, the U.S. included. 81.158.1.233 (talk) 02:46, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rankine and Kelvins 

message: Room temperature in cooking may often be determined by holding left index finger in the air, and right index in subject. i.e. to determin water, right index should be held under running spout, or cake batter, index finger should be held in batter. left handed people can use opposite index fingers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.30.144 (talk) 15:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What??? 98.119.149.245 (talk) 15:43, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Room Temperature in cooking 

message: it is 0~30 degree C.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.220.233.83 (talk) 12:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Room temperature in GSP 

message: The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP/NF) defines several terms relating to the storage of pharmaceutical products.  20°C to 25°C (68°F to 77°F) is given as the definition of "controlled room temperature", and you will see this listed on many pharmaceutical products.
"Warm" is defined as any temperature between 30°C and 40°C (86°F and 104°F).
"Excessive Heat" is any temperature above 40°C (104°F).
"Cool" is any temperature between 8°C and 15° (46°F and 59°F), and any temperature not exceeding 8°C (46°F) is defined as "cold". Quintab (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:01, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temperature & Pharmaceutical Science 

message: I changed a few numbers around in this article. The range originally given for room temperature, 20° to 29°C, is way too high from my experiences. In the winter time, I set the thermostat to about 60°F (15-16°C), and in the summer time, I set it to 77°F (25°C), so 15-25°C seemed like a more appropriate range. I don't know about you but with those settings, I feel comfortable year round. ~June 2, 2011 19:31 EDT (UTC-4)
...where do you live, Svalbard or Baffin Island? Because I thought room temperature is supposed to be 28. 123.201.146.76 (talk) 20:26, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Room Temperature Range 

message: The article on Room temperature at the Simple English Wikipedia looks somewhat better than this one... I'll copy some material over, unless someone else does it first (with proper attribution!), when I get a chance. Allens (talk) 15:46, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Allens (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

text: The above attribution was moved from the article to the Talk page to avoid cluttering the article with the editing history record.  —BarrelProof (talk) 22:05, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple English Wikipedia 

message: Section 2 in "comfort levels" cites 'W mids PH Obs (UK)' as 118 (!!) degrees should be 21C according to the article quoted 86.136.102.36 (talk) 19:21, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly, someone was vandalizing the numbers. I corrected those I could easily verify by following the citation links for WMPHO and BBC News. —BarrelProof (talk) 21:26, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error - typo 

message: ::The article for caesium says "It has a melting point of 28.5 °C (83.3 °F), making it one of the few elemental metals that are liquid near room temperature", which raises the question "What are the others?". As room temperature is linked in that sentence, this seems like the place to say what those elements are. Unfortunately I don't know what the remaining metals are, so perhaps others can add them. :-)
::85.211.237.252 (talk) 09:19, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  thanks for the contribution. I decided to move it to the Liquid metal article instead. I'm not sure if it's totally appropriate there, but I think more so than here. I don't think we can have in this article a listing of all the things that happen at room temperature, e.g. mercury or water becoming liquid, butter getting soft, and so on. This article is about the concept and definition of room temperature itself. The reason there is a section about wine is that in the context of wine serving, the concept of room temperature itself is different (lower) than usual, i.e., 18 °C rather than the typical 20-21 °C.  Btw., in the caesium article, in the first paragraph there is a note #2, that lists the other metals. --IamNotU (talk) 14:57, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added new section - Liquid metals 

message: While researching lipids and the difference between fats and oils, the main difference was physical state at room temperature.  A popular search engine sent me here when a searched for 'room temperature'.  Maybe a mention here? 216.75.114.13 (talk) 02:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oil versus Fat -- New Section?