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Was born
He was born to a wealthy family- Emilie Punctis, Jean Antoine Lavoisier. He was born in Paris, France. -
Completed a degree in law.
At College Mazarin because his parents wanted him to. -
At age 21, he began to fufull his own dream.
Studied Science and Mathematics. Also: Astronomy, Botany, and Geology under eminent scientists at the timel. -
Explaining.
He did not discover any new substances. He made very little improvements to laboratory methods. He took the work of others (Priestley, Black, Cavendish, Scheele) and explained it. -
Ferme Generale.
Bought a share in the Ferme Generale, a tax farming finacial company which advanced the estimated tax revenue to the royal government return for the right to collect taxes. -
Explained Combustion and Respiration
From 1770-1790, he believed that weight was coserved through the course of chemical reactions- even those involving gases. He explained combustion and respirtation in terms of chemical reactions that involved a component of air which he called oxygen. -
Married Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoiser
She was only thirteen years old when they got married. -
Repeating Robert Boyle.
Repeated Robert Boyle's tin calx experiments from the previous century. -
Experiment
Conducted an experiment that established a fatal shortcoming of the phlogiston theory. -
Metric System.
Contributed to the establishment of the metric system. -
Sources
mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Lavoiser.html -
Published his book "Traite elementair de Chemie"
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Trouble
"All 32 former memebers of the Ferme Generale were arrested and imprisoned. After a trail by Jury, along with his father-in-law, were found guilty of conspiracy against the people of France." -
Gullioned
