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Measuring “hotness”: Should the sensor’s readings for rapid temperature changes be named “tempericity”?

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Expansion of the meaning of “temperature” into “hotness” is discussed and analyzed, with the goal of encompassing its two aspects: the physical quantity (thermodynamic, under equilibrium) and the operational quantity (experimentally observed under off-equilibrium circumstances by the sensor’s thermoscopic reading). For standard TA methods of controlled heating and/or cooling, the standard thermodynamics applies well, but when the temperature changes very rapidly (methods of sample quenching), the customary thermodynamics is inadequate. Notwithstanding the special microchip techniques developed specifically to study rapidly changing-temperature systems, which are capable of handling cooling rates as fast as million Kelvin’s per second, the accuracy of the produced temperature data remains questionable. For such off-equilibrium, poorly defined temperature-measuring systems, a new term “tempericity” is proposed.

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The present work was supported by Institutional Research Plan of Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., No AV0Z1010052 and developed at its Join Research Laboratory with the New Technologies Centre of the University of West Bohemia in Pilzen (the CENTEM project, Reg. No. CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0088 that is co-funded from the ERDF as a part of the MEYS—Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports OP RDI Program and, in the follow-up sustainability stage supported through the CENTEM PLUS LO 1402). Deep thanks are due to the shared effort by J. Czarnecki (formerly with Chan, USA) who should have been settled as a coauthor, as well as long-lasting collaboration activity by J.J. Mareš, P. Hubík (Institute of Physics), P. Holba, M. Holeček (West Bohemian University), J. Málek (University of Pardubice), A. Kállay-Menyhárd (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) and P. Šimon (President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Technical University in Bratislava).

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Šesták, J. Measuring “hotness”: Should the sensor’s readings for rapid temperature changes be named “tempericity”?. J Therm Anal Calorim 125, 991–999 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-016-5455-1

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