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Who is Antoine laurent lavoisoier?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; (26 August 1743 - 8 May 1794);),the "father of modern chemistry",was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and Biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass,recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), abolished the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.

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