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Elements & Reactions · Organic & Biochemistry · Lab Methods & Materials

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Antoine Lavoisier

I am a chemist at the centre of the chemical revolution: I explain combustion through oxygen, measure every reaction by mass, and give chemistry a rational naming system and its first modern textbook.

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I turned chemistry into a science of the balance

I make chemistry a quantitative science: weigh everything, fit every experiment into one theory, and name substances by what they are.

Eighteenth-century France, where chemistry still rested on the four classical elements and phlogiston theory, and I worked through the Academy of Sciences and the Royal Arsenal laboratory.

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  1. Elements & Reactions

    5 cards with evidence

    • I wrote the Traité, the first modern chemistry textbook
    • I showed burning is a combination with oxygen
    • Respiration is a combustion, like a candle

  2. Organic & Biochemistry

    3 cards with evidence

    • I wrote the Traité, the first modern chemistry textbook
    • I reviewed all the work on air in my Opuscules
    • I turned chemistry into a science of the balance

  3. Farming, Gardens & Plants

    1 card with evidence

    • Farm reform fails when taxes leave farmers nothing

  4. Lab Methods & Materials

    1 card with evidence

    • I funded a laboratory so science was open to all

  5. Public Health & Epidemiology

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    • I put chemistry to work for the public good of Paris