What is room temperature in this context? The temp of the space it's sitting in or a typical room temp on Earth?
Room temperature on earth. In physics room temperature is used as a technical term and actually pretty universally defined as 20°C (293.15 K).
Traditionally in European papers it used to be 18°C, so if Einstein and Schrödinger talk about room temperature it is that.
I've heard in chemistry and stamp collecting they use 25°C but that is heresy.
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Room temperature on earth. In physics room temperature is used as a technical term and actually pretty universally defined as 20°C (293.15 K).
Traditionally in European papers it used to be 18°C, so if Einstein and Schrödinger talk about room temperature it is that.
I've heard in chemistry and stamp collecting they use 25°C but that is heresy.