After a gas is cooled to absolute zero can it be heated back up?

Subject: After a gas is cooled to absolute zero can it be heated back up?

Date: Wed Jan 19 14:05:57 2000
Posted by Grant Pirkle
Grade level: 10-12 School: Oklahoma School of science and Mathematics
City: Oklahoma State/Province: OK Country: U.S.A.
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 948312357.Ch

Message:


After a gas is cooled to absolute zero it has zero volume. If you heat gas 
from absolute zero will it regain it's volume, or will it forever be stuck 
at zero? If it is forever stuck at zero, doesn't this defy to the Law of 
Conservation of Matter?

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