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Lavoiser was born
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Paper about improving street lighting
He wrote a paper and published it -
Elected onto the Royal Academy of Science
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Married daughter of a Farmer General
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Appointed to the National Gunpowder Commision
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Showed that burning is a combination of a substance with oxygen
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Began heat-measuring experiments
He showed that the heat produced by respiration was equal to the heat produced when the same amount of oxygen was used to burn charcoal. -
The Farmer's General was arrested
Lavoisier was executed during the French Revolution