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The basal body temperature ranges between 36.7–37.3 °C (98.1–99.1 °F) throughout the luteal phase, and drops down to pre-ovulatory levels within a few days of menstruation. [54] Women can chart this phenomenon to determine whether and when they are ovulating, so as to aid conception or contraception. [citation needed]
One option is temperature control—i.e., keeping all cold water below 25 °C (77 °F) and all hot water above 51 °C (124 °F). [3] Temperature affects the survival of Legionella as follows: [3] Above 70 °C (158 °F) – Legionella dies almost instantly; At 60 °C (140 °F) – 90% die in 2 minutes (Decimal reduction time (D) = 2 minutes)
Temperature-dependent sex determination was first described in Agama agama in 1966 by Madeleine Charnier. [18] A 2015 study found that hot temperatures altered the expression of the sex chromosomes in Australia's bearded dragon lizards. The lizards were female in appearance and were capable of bearing offspring, despite having the ZZ ...
An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός ( ektós) "outside" and θερμός ( thermós) "heat"), more commonly referred to as a " cold-blooded animal ", [ 1] is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature. [ 2]
Thermophile. A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile —that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between 41 and 122 °C (106 and 252 °F). [ 1][ 2] Many thermophiles are archaea, though some of them are bacteria and fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earliest bacteria.
The breaking of hydrogen bonds on melting with increasing temperature in the range 0–4 °C allows for a denser molecular packing in which some of the lattice cavities are filled by water molecules. [ 32 ] [ 36 ] Above 4 °C, however, thermal expansion becomes the dominant effect, [ 36 ] and water near the boiling point (100 °C) is about 4% ...
Thermal pollution is the rise or drop in the temperature of a natural body of water caused by human influence. Thermal pollution, unlike chemical pollution, results in a change in the physical properties of water. A common cause of thermal pollution is the use of water as a coolant by power plants and industrial manufacturers. [ 1]
Supercooling is the cooling of a liquid below its freezing point without it becoming solid. Freezing point depression is when a solution can be cooled below the freezing point of the corresponding pure liquid due to the presence of the solute; an example of this is the freezing point depression that occurs when salt is added to pure water.