Circles: deprojected thermodynamic profiles of the ICM in ZwCl 235 between 3″–180″ (for details on the spectral extraction and fitting see Sect. 4.2); star: the innermost gray point in each plot is obtained from the spectral analysis of the inner 3″ of the cluster (for details see Sect. 4.6). Panel a: temperature profile. Panel b: electron density profile. Panel c: abundances profile. Panel d: pressure profile. Panel e: entropy profile. Panel f: cooling time profile, with the best fit power law over the radial range 3″–180″ overlaid in black, the t_cool = 7.7 Gyr threshold shown with a green dashed line and the cooling radius shown with a gray line. The fit has been performed using BCES (Akritas & Bershady 1996).