Definition of Lavoisier

1. Noun. French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794).

Exact synonyms: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavoisier

Lavandula
Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula latifolia
Lavandula officinalis
Lavandula stoechas
Lavasan
Lavatera
Lavatera arborea
Lavdovsky's nucleoid
Laverania
Lavern
Laverna
Laverne
Lavigne
Lavinia
Lavoisier
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria
Lavukaleve
Law
Law French
Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu
Law of Demeter
Law of Moses
Lawanda
Lawrence
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell
Lawrence Peter Berra
Lawrence of Arabia

Literary usage of Lavoisier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition by Robert Siegfried (2002)
"After a brief collaboration, the unfortunate Bucquet died in 1780, leaving to lavoisier the completion of a chemical revolution he had anticipated in 1773. ..."

2. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"CHAPTER VI lavoisier Antoine Laurent lavoisier was born in Paris, August 26, 1743, and began his studies at the Collège Mazarin where he came in contact ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The lavoisier Memorial.—It is doubtless well known to a majority of the members of the American Chemical Society that it is proposed to erect a monument in ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"SKETCH OF lavoisier. A NTOINE LAURENT lavoisier was born on the 26th * of -£A_ ... So interested did lavoisier become in his studies that he was ready, ..."

5. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1881)
"Laplace and lavoisier-s Experiments.—Laplace and lavoisier determined the linear expansion of a great number of solids by the following method. ..."

6. A System of Chemistry: In Four Volumes by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"Thus lavoisier explained combustion without having recourse to phlogiston; ... Mr. lavoisier, therefore, by giving a satisfactory explanation of combustion ..."

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