Lavoisier Facts

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• Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born in Paris on Aug. 26, 1743.

• Lavoisier is a Father of modern chemistry.

• Lavoisier showed that all substances can exist in the three stages of matter.
  

  “In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.” ― Antoine Lavoisier

• Antoine Lavoisier is famous for the oxygen theory of combustion.

• To show that respiration is combustion, he once packed a pig in ice and measured the amount of melt water that was produced by body heat.

• Lavoisier also discovered the role of oxygen in the rusting of iron.

• He found out that oxygen reacted with hydrogen forming a molecule of water.

• He discovered elements, formulated a basic law of chemistry and helped create the metric system.

• Lavoisier was the first scientist to outline the law of conservation of mass.

• Lavoisier was awarded a medal by King Louis XIII for his street lamp design.

• Lavoisier worked as well to improve economic and social conditions in France.

• Lavoisier was so serious about his work that he put himself on a milk and bread diet to spend less time eating, and more time researching.

• He was eventually executed  in on 8 May 1794.

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