Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old ...

The Law of Conservation of Mass dates from Antoine Lavoisier's 1789 discovery that mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions. In other words, the mass of any one element at the ...

In 1781 he publishes his book on gases. 1772: Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley conduct experiments similar to Scheele's in a new study of gases. Over the next decade they work, independently ...

Antoine Lavoisier (France) later unified their findings, naming the element "oxygen" and systematically disproving the phlogiston theory, which had posited a fire-like element released during burning.

Jumping through time to the 18th century, a chemist by the name of Antoine Lavoisier (whom we shall meet in Developing Understanding) recognised that some substances could be broken down into other ...

The earliest attempt to classify the elements was in 1789, when Antoine Lavoisier grouped the elements based on their properties into gases, non-metals, metals and earths. Several other attempts ...

Mendeleev’s ideas, which built on the earlier work of French chemist Antoine Lavoisier in the previous century, totally changed the way chemists viewed their discipline. Now each chemical ...

Antoine Lavoisier didn’t just study chemistry—he transformed it Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry, he shattered old myths, discovered the role of oxygen in burning, and laid the ...