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Lavoisier, Antoine
[person]
French chemist, born in Paris (1743-1794). He is famous for proving that air is composed of several gases. He also experimentally established the Law of Conservation of Mass, devised the system of chemical nomenclature that is currently in use, and authored the first modern chemistry textbook, Traité Élémenaire de Chimie (Elementary Treatise of Chemistry).
Appears in modules:
- Atomic Theory II Ions, neutrons, isotopes and quantum theory
- Chemical Equations Using shorthand to show balanced reactions
- Early Ideas about Matter From Democritus to Dalton
- Kinetic-Molecular Theory Molecule collisions, the mean free path, and modern KMT
- Thermodynamics I Caloric theory, latent heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
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