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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier was a French born chemist and biologist. He was responsible for the recognition and naming of oxygen and hydrogen. He made major contributions to the studies of combustion, mass, and gunpowder.

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What are some contributions of Antoine Lavoisier in the field of chemistry?

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Lavoisier came up with what we know as Law of Conservation of Mass , states that "mass can neither be created nor destroyed". The quantity of an element always equal from starting mass to final mass .

Why dis Antoine lavoisier get his head cut off?

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Because beside being a scientist he was a 'tax farmer'. Collecting taxes is never easy but it was particularly difficult in the pre-modern age and one solution was for the state to assess the potential tax take from a region and 'sell' a contract for collection at a large discount to the highest bidder. So for example, estimated revenue $1m is sold to a tax farmer for $0.5m. So the closer the tax farmer can collect up to $1m, then the more he makes in profit. Naturally, tax farmers and their agents used some 'sturdy' methods in collecting and this made them particularly unpopular.

How did josph priesley and Antoine lavoisier change people's ideas about burning?

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They made people aware about how burning happens

How did Antoine lavoisier and Joseph priestly communicate?

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they were in a relationship until priestley had an affair with stuhl and then married Quenn victoria

What significant contribution did Lavoisier make in chemistry?

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Lavoisier is revered as the father of modern chemistry because of the quantitative measures taken to prove how elements work. Lavoisier's most famous experiment involved oxygen and how it can be used in combustion.

Where was Antoine lavoisier located when he discovered sulphur?

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He didn't.

The name "sulfur" was in use for this substance since the days of the Romans.

LaVoisier simply showed that sulfur could not be broken down into any constituent parts, and was thus an "element."

What experiments did Antoine Lavoisier perform?

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Lavoisier conducted a number of experiments that were based on the assumption that matter can neither be created nor destroyed and validated it through the experiments. This led to the formulation of the Law of Conservation of Mass (or Matter).

What is the nickname or short name of Antoine Lavoisier?

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french chemist who proved the law of conversation of mass

What 4 categories did Antoine Lavoisier use to classify elements?

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solids,liquids, and gases Novanet

How many elements did Antoine Lavoisier arrange?

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he grouped the table into metals, non metals and gases.

What did scientist Antoine Lavoisier discover?

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He discovered that the phlogiston theory was incorrect, and recognized and named oxygen and hydrogen. He accepted that sulfur is an element, had contributions to metric system, established a list of chemical elements, discovered that diamond is a form of carbon, discovered that water is formed from oxygen and hydrogen, etc.

He proposed independently (he had any knowledge of Lomonosov works) the law of mass conservation.

What country did antione lavoisier work?

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Antoine Lavoisier was French

How did Antoine lavoisier disprove the phlogiston theory?

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There was no evidence until at least 2 yrs into the work of the phlogiston theory

How old was Antoine lavoisier when he married?

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From scienceworld.wolfram.com: He married a young, beautiful 13-year-old girl named Marie-Anne, who translated from English for him and illustrated his books.

Why did the work of Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley's work change people's ideas about burning?

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1.burning has been important to people ever since early humans learnt how to control fire. But HOW do things burn? This was a question which it took centuries to answer - and until it could be answered, chemistry could never make much progress. By the 17th century scientists were beginning to realise that the burning of fuels, the reactions of metals in air and the breathing of animals all had something in common - they were all faster or slower versions of the same type of reaction. Wood turnss to ashes when it burns.

 

2. It made correct predictions of heat transfer, neglecting radiative heat transfer, and did not provide specifics of why certain materials had an "affinity" for phlogiston over other materials.

 

3.It is believed that matter is made from the elements air, water, and 3 elements of earth terra pinguis (fatty earth), mercurial, and fusible. On combustion it was thought that the fatty, combustible earth burnt away during combustion. In 1703 George Stahl renamed the terra pinguis as phlogiston, to take into account the corrosion of metals to be the "matter and principle of fire, not the fire itself". Contained in all combustible matters escaping from all burning material. For example a piece of wood turning to ashes on burning, the burning is explained by the escape of the phlogiston from the wood originally composed of ashes and phlogiston.

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Antoine Lavoisier determined that oxygen was a key substance in combustion, and he gave the element its name. He developed the modern system of naming chemical substances and has been called the “father of modern chemistry” for his emphasis on careful experimentation.

Why Antoine Lavoisier contribution important?

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Antoine Lavoisier is credited with the discovery of the of mass conservation. But Lavoisier had many other important contributions in chemistry.

What was Antoine lavoisier contribution to the law of conservation of mass?

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The Law of Conservation of Mass dates from Antoine Lavoisier's 1789 discovery that mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions. ... If we account for all reactants and products in a chemical reaction, the total mass will be the same at any point in time in any closed system.

How did Antoine Lavoisier prove the law of conservation of mass in 1789?

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By experimenting with a triple beam balance

How did Antoine Lavoisier change science?

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Lavoisier helped to transform chemistry from a science of observation to the science of measurement that it is today.

by doing so, he created a balance that would measure mass to the nearest 0.0005 grams.