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  • Black and white Photograph of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
    Rights: Public Domain Published 2 February 2018 Size: 380 KB Referencing Hub media

    0K or -273.15°C is the theoretical lower limit of temperature.

    Absolute zero is the name given to this point. It is the temperature at which no more heat can be removed from a substance.

    William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824 – 1907) developed the concept of ‘absolute zero’ and proposed a temperature scale starting at this point. This scale, named in his honour is the Kelvin temperature scale.

    Image: Public Domain

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