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Antoine Lavoisier
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Antoine Lavoisier showed through precisely weighed, sealed vessel experiments that combustion and respiration both consume a component of air he named oxygen in 1778, and that water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen rather than an element. His 1783 paper Reflections on Phlogiston dismantled the century old phlogiston theory of combustion, and his careful accounting of mass before and after chemical reactions established the law of conservation of mass. He was guillotined in 1794 during the French Revolution, convicted along with other tax farmers of the Ferme Generale.
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Calorimeter, Instruments With Pierre-Simon Laplace, whose own entity is not yet live on this atlas; one of the first ice calorimeters was used by the pair in the winter of 1782-83.
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( lə-VWAH-zee-ay; French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
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