Antoine Lavoisier Founder of Modern Chemistry |
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| Author:
| Yount, Lisa |
| Series title: | Great Minds of Science Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7660-3011-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Publisher: | Enslow Publishing, LLC
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.93 |
Book Description:
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Antoine Lavoisier used experiments and careful measurements to create a system to help chemists understand how matter behaved. His experiments on combustion showed that oxygen played a key part in the burning process. Lavoisier shared his ideas with many of the other great scientists of his day, including Benjamin Franklin. For his many accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier is remembered today as the founder of modern chemistry and one of the great minds of science.
Antoine Lavoisier used experiments and careful measurements to create a system to help chemists understand how matter behaved. His experiments on combustion showed that oxygen played a key part in the burning process. Lavoisier shared his ideas with many of the other great scientists of his day, including Benjamin Franklin. For his many accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier is remembered today as the founder of modern chemistry and one of the great minds of science.