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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

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

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

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French chemist who isolated the major components of air, disproved the phlogiston theory by determining the role of oxygen in combustion, and devised a system of chemical nomenclature. Lavoisier was executed during the Reign of Terror.

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