1778 ⟶ Antoine Lavoisier Names and Recognizes Oxygen's Role
Antoine Lavoisier, considered "The father of modern chemistr...
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💨 Scheele and Priestley Independently Isolate Oxygen
Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley independently isolate oxygen, called by Priestley "dephlogisticated air" and Scheele "fire air".⟶
ChemistryOxygenCarl Wilhelm ScheeleJoseph PriestleyGases18th CenturyPhlogiston Theory
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United Kingdom💨 Antoine Lavoisier Names and Recognizes Oxygen's Role
Antoine Lavoisier, considered "The father of modern chemistry", recognizes and names oxygen, and recognizes its importance and role in combustion.⟶
ChemistryOxygenAntoine LavoisierCombustion18th CenturyModern ChemistryPhlogiston Theory
France⚖️ Antoine Lavoisier Proposes Conservation of Mass
ChemistryLaw of Conservation of MassLavoisierStoichiometryQuantitative Analysis18th CenturyScientific RevolutionChemical Reactions
France📚 Antoine Lavoisier Publishes Traité Élémentaire de Chimie
Antoine Lavoisier publishes Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, the first modern chemistry textbook. It is a complete survey of (at that time) modern chemistry, including the first concise definition of the law of conservation of mass, and thus also represents the founding of the discipline of stoichiometry or quantitative chemical analysis.⟶
ChemistryTextbookLavoisierModern ChemistryStoichiometry18th CenturyScientific RevolutionChemical Analysis
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