Antoine Lavoisier

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Antoine Lavoisier, in full Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, (born AugParis, France—died May 8,Paris), prominent French chemist and leading figure in the 18th-century chemical revolution who developed an experimentally based theory of the chemical reactivity of oxygen and coauthored the modern system for naming chemical substances.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( ]) was a French nobleman and chemist who is considered the "Father of Modern Chemistry." He admits in the Preface to this book, “This science still has many chasms, which interrupt the series of facts, and often render ti extremely difficult to reconcile them with each other: It has not, like the elements of geometry, the /5(11).

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, a meticulous experimenter, revolutionized chemistry. He established the law of conservation of mass, determined that combustion and respiration are caused by chemical reactions with what he named “oxygen,” and helped systematize chemical nomenclature, among many other accomplishments.

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