Antoine Lavoisier
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influenc
Detail from Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife by Jacques-Louis David
The Collège des Quatre-Nations in Paris
Lavoisier conducting an experiment on respiration in the 1770s
Portrait of Lavoisier explaining to his wife the result of his experiments on air by Ernest Board
Chemical nomenclature
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Chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union
Title page of Méthode de nomenclature chimique.
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
Antoine Lavoisier
Claude Louis Berthollet