How did Charles's law lead to the concept of absolute scale of temperature?

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Charles saw a linear relationship between the volume and temperature of a gas. Extrapolating backward, he found that the point where the gas would have no volume would be $- 273^{0} C$ . Since that's as cold as he thought things could ever get, that originated the idea of absolute zero.

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