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  2. Charles's law - Wikipedia

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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. [1] This relationship of direct proportion can ...

  3. Gas thermometer - Wikipedia

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    This thermometer functions by Charles's Law. Charles's Law states that when the temperature of a gas increases, so does the volume. [2] Using Charles's Law, the temperature can be measured by knowing the volume of gas at a certain temperature by using the formula, written below. Translating it to the correct levels of the device that is holding ...

  4. Gas laws - Wikipedia

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    Charles' law, or the law of volumes, was founded in 1787 by Jacques Charles. It states that, for a given mass of an ideal gas at constant pressure, the volume is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, assuming in a closed system. The statement of Charles' law is as follows: the volume (V) of a given mass of a gas, at constant ...

  5. Charles Law - Wikipedia

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    Charles Law may refer to: Charles's law, also known as the law of volumes, experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated; Charles Law (British politician) (1792–1850), British judge and Conservative Party MP; Charles B. Law (1872–1929), United States Representative from New York

  6. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb's law: Physics: Charles Augustin de Coulomb: Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law) Thermodynamics: Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac: Clifford's theorem Clifford's circle theorems: Algebraic geometry, Geometry: William Kingdon Clifford: Curie's law: Physics: Pierre Curie: Curie–Weiss law: Physics ...

  7. Equation of state - Wikipedia

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    In 1834, Émile Clapeyron combined Boyle's law and Charles' law into the first statement of the ideal gas law. Initially, the law was formulated as pV m = R ( T C + 267) (with temperature expressed in degrees Celsius), where R is the gas constant .

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    He had tried it on the black market to stave off sickness when he couldn’t get heroin — what law enforcement calls diversion. But Patrick had just left a facility that pushed other solutions. He had gotten a crash course on the tenets of 12-step, the kind of sped-up program that some treatment advocates dismissively refer to as a “30-day ...

  9. Gas - Wikipedia

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    Drifting smoke particles indicate the movement of the surrounding gas.. Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.The others are solid, liquid, and plasma. [1] A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or compound molecules made from a variety of atoms (e.g. carbon dioxide).