Antoine Lavoisier | Wikipedia audio article
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Antoine Lavoisier


00:01:43 1 Biography
00:01:52 1.1 Early life and education
00:03:11 1.2 Early scientific work
00:04:28 1.3 Lavoisier as a social reformer
00:04:38 1.3.1 Research benefitting the public good
00:06:29 1.3.2 Sponsorship of the sciences
00:07:37 1.4 Ferme générale and marriage
00:10:10 1.5 Adulteration of tobacco
00:12:20 1.6 Royal Commission on Agriculture
00:13:12 1.7 Gunpowder Commission
00:14:39 1.8 During the Revolution
00:16:04 1.9 Final days and execution
00:18:17 1.9.1 Post-mortem
00:19:31 2 Contributions to chemistry
00:19:41 2.1 Oxygen theory of combustion
00:20:40 2.1.1 Joseph Black's "fixed air"
00:21:58 2.1.2 Joseph Priestley
00:24:12 2.2 Pioneer of stoichiometry
00:25:43 2.3 Chemical nomenclature
00:28:04 2.4 Chemical revolution and opposition
00:30:04 3 Notable works
00:30:13 3.1 Easter memoir
00:31:40 3.2 Dismantling phlogiston theory
00:34:56 3.3 iElementary Treatise of Chemistry/i
00:36:12 3.4 Physiological work
00:38:22 4 Legacy
00:40:26 5 Awards and honours
00:41:36 6 Selected writings
00:43:35 6.1 In translation
00:47:11 7 Notes
00:47:20 8 Further reading
00:47:29 9 External links
00:47:48 9.1 About his work
00:48:14 9.2 His writings



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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794) was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He is widely considered in popular literature as the "father of modern chemistry".It is generally accepted that Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry largely stem from his changing the science from a qualitative to a quantitative one. Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) and opposed the phlogiston theory. Lavoisier helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He predicted the existence of silicon (1787) and was also the first to establish that sulfur was an element (1777) rather than a compound. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.
Lavoisier was a powerful member of a number of aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme générale. The Ferme générale was one of the most hated components of the Ancien Régime because of the profits it took at the expense of the state, the secrecy of the terms of its contracts, and the violence of its armed agents. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco, and was guillotined.