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Antoine Lavoisier - Term Papers

Antoine Lavoisier

was born in 1743 on August 26th in Paris. He studied at the College Mazarin. In 1768 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. Through out his life he has held many public offices, some of which are director of the state gunpowder works, member of a commission to establish a uniform system of weights and measures, and also Antoine was the commissary of the treasury.
was a founder of modern chemistry, and one of the first to is effective quantitative methods to study reactions. He showed that although matter changes its state in a chemical reaction, the quantity of the matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical reaction. This gave experimental evidence ...

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once said, “ If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have no yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us.” His proposed oxygen theory discredited the phlogiston theory and described oxygen’s role in respiration.
lived a monumental life and in his attempt to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system and in farming methods, as one of the farmers-general, he was arrested and tried by the revolutionary tribunal. He was guillotined on May 8, 1774 during the Reign of ...

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Added: 5/19/2005 12:41:35 PM
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