Lavoisier
Named oxygen, hydrogen
Lavoisier refers to Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), the French chemist considered the father of modern chemistry.
He identified oxygen's role in combustion, disproved the phlogiston theory, and helped systematize chemical nomenclature.
Lavoisier was executed during the French Revolution.
His name appears in chemistry contexts: Lavoisier's law of conservation of mass, the Lavoisier medal.
Element eight, colorless gas
- combustionExothermic reaction with oxygen
- phlogistonHypothetical fire essence
- hydrogenSimplest atomic element
- oxidationLosing electrons chemically
elements · nomenclature · calorimeter · respiration · conservation · compounds · analysis · synthesis
Late-1700s republican upheaval
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- tax collectorOne who collects levies
- Reign of TerrorRevolutionary mass execution period
- ParisFrance's chief city
eighteenth century · Enlightenment · aristocracy · execution · tragic death · rehabilitation · metric system · Arsenal
Matter cannot vanish
- stoichiometryQuantitative chemical reaction analysis
- textbookAcademic subject manual
- commemorationsActs honoring past events
Determining size or amount
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- quantificationExpressing something numerically
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
empiricism · systematic · observation · data · verification · apparatus · methodology · accuracy
False model of combustion
- paradigm shiftWholesale replacement of frameworks
- disproofEvidence showing falsehood
- PriestleyEnglish chemist and theologian
- scientific revolutionTransformative change in understanding
transformation · breakthrough · refutation · reinterpretation · reform · founding father
oxygen
Element eight, colorless gas
- combustionExothermic reaction with oxygen
- phlogistonHypothetical fire essence
- hydrogenSimplest atomic element
oxidation · elements · nomenclature · calorimeter · respiration · conservation · compounds · analysis · synthesis · sulfur
French Revolution
Late-1700s republican upheaval
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- tax collectorOne who collects levies
- Reign of TerrorRevolutionary mass execution period
Paris · eighteenth century · Enlightenment · aristocracy · execution · tragic death · rehabilitation · metric system · Arsenal
conservation of mass
Matter cannot vanish
- stoichiometryQuantitative chemical reaction analysis
- textbookAcademic subject manual
- commemorationsActs honoring past events
measurement
Determining size or amount
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- quantificationExpressing something numerically
experimentation · empiricism · systematic · observation · data · verification · apparatus · methodology · accuracy · instruments
phlogiston theory
False model of combustion
- paradigm shiftWholesale replacement of frameworks
- disproofEvidence showing falsehood
- PriestleyEnglish chemist and theologian
scientific revolution · transformation · breakthrough · refutation · reinterpretation · reform · founding father
- French chemistsMarie Curie, Gay-Lussac, Leblanc, Dumas
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, Darwin, chemist
- Science Historyscientific revolution, natural philosophy, scientific method, scientific journals, Royal Society
- Early Sciencescientific revolution, scientific method, experimental method, Boyle, Harvey
- Enlightenment ScienceLinnaeus, Euler, Laplace, Franklin, Priestley
- French ScholarsMarie Curie, Pierre Curie, Louis Pasteur, Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes
Lavoisieralchemist
Practitioner of proto-chemistry
Nicolas Flamel · mysticism · mystic · pseudoscience · pseudoscientist
LavoisierJoseph Priestley