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Antoine Lavoisier

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Noun1.Antoine Lavoisier - French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)


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P 76, 78603 Maisons Laffitte, France 4 SAUR Direction Metiers, Les Cyclades, 1 rue Antoine Lavoisier, 78064 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Cedex, France Correspondence to: X.
Roberta Baxter's FIRE, WATER AND AIR: THE STORY OF ANTOINE LAVOISIER (1599350874) tells of a wealthy Frenchman who planned to become a lawyer, but who curiosity about science led him to pursue chemistry as his career.
Though the idea had been previously expressed and experimented with, it was attributed to Antoine Lavoisier in 1789.
 
 
 
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