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He was born to a wealthy family- Emilie Punctis, Jean Antoine Lavoisier. He was born in Paris, France.
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At College Mazarin because his parents wanted him to.
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Studied Science and Mathematics. Also: Astronomy, Botany, and Geology under eminent scientists at the timel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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She was only thirteen years old when they got married.
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Repeated Robert Boyle's tin calx experiments from the previous century.
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Conducted an experiment that established a fatal shortcoming of the phlogiston theory.
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Contributed to the establishment of the metric system.
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mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Lavoiser.html
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"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."
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