Charles's law
Ley de Charles (dilatación de los gases con la temperatura)
- Date
- 1787 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Jacques Charles; published by Gay-Lussac (1802)
- People
- 👤 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac1778–1850
- Field
- Matter & energy
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
At constant pressure, the volume of a gas is proportional to its absolute temperature. Together with Boyle's law, it leads to the ideal gas equation of state and the concept of absolute zero.
Charles did not publish; Gay-Lussac (1802) and Dalton (1801) published equivalent results and credited Charles.
What it led to
- Ideal gas equation
- Absolute temperature scale
- Thermodynamics
Built on
- Boyle's law1662
- hot-air balloons
Made possible
- Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes1808
- Ideal gas law1834
- quantified hot-air balloon
- gas thermometers