Charles's law, also called the law of volumes, is an experimental gas law describing how gases expand when heated, stating that when the pressure of a dry gas is held constant, its Kelvin temperature and volume are in direct proportion.
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Charles's law (also known as the law of volumes) is an experimental gas law that describes how gases tend to expand when heated. A modern statement of Charles's law is: When the pressure on a sample of a dry gas is held constant, the Kelvin temperature and the volume will be in direct proportion.
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named after scientist Jacques Charles, who formulated the original law in his unpublished work from the 1780s.
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