Simultaneous discoveries in art and science highlight humanity's shared creativity, problem-solving, and the ...
The Law of Conservation of Mass dates from Antoine Lavoisier's 1789 discovery that mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions. In other words, the mass of any one element at the ...
In 1781 he publishes his book on gases. 1772: Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley conduct experiments similar to Scheele's in a new study of gases. Over the next decade they work, independently ...
The earliest attempt to classify the elements was in 1789, when Antoine Lavoisier grouped the elements based on their properties into gases, non-metals, metals and earths. Several other attempts ...
Priestley named the isolated, highly reactive gas 'dephlogisticated air', which was later renamed oxygen by French chemist, Antoine Lavoisier. He is also credited with the discovery of several ...