2007-09-13 12:46:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94) did not actually "invent" anything, but he made a great many discoveries in the field of chemistry.
Below I list some of his main discoveries and achievements.
He:
-- proved that combustion needs part of the air that he called oxygen (in the process he disproved the "dephlohistated air" theory wherein it was claimed that "phlogiston" -- an imaginary fire element -- was released during combustion)
-- showed that water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen
-- showed that organic compounds contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
-- showed that carbon dioxide and water are the normal products of respiration
-- created the first extensive list of the elements and helped reform chemical nomenclature
-- helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures.
2007-09-13 14:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by historybuff 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He didn't actually "invent" anything, he just improved the whole process of chemistry. Pretty much everything he did led others to discover much "bigger" things.
Before he did it, nobody regularly measured everything before and after; this led to the Law of Conservation of Mass. His use of terminology that described the elements was later used as the nomenclature for all of them, and his ideas about using measurements that were easier to understand led to the invention of the metric system. (etc etc)
He may not have had an earth-shatteringly grand career in chemistry, but his contributions are still felt today. :)
2007-09-13 12:56:32 · answer #2 · answered by Donna Lee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Frenchman Antoine Lavoisier the nature of acids and did work on oxygen.
2007-09-13 12:53:48 · answer #3 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't invent anything, but he did something much more important. Before his work, people thought that an element they called "phlogiston" existed in some materials, like wood, and that is what causes those materials to burn. Lavoisier discovered that the presence of oxygen causes things to burn, and that there is no such thing as "phlogiston"
2007-09-13 12:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by Dory 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), disproved the phlogiston theory, introduced the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.
He is mostly noted for his discoveries and contributions to chemistry.
He invented the constant pressure calorimeter.
2007-09-13 12:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Frosty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
apparently the metric system, and also discovered several major elements, including Oxygen and Hydrogen. He also came up with a list of the known elements of his time.
2007-09-13 12:55:05 · answer #6 · answered by Nancy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What Did Antoine Lavoisier Do
2017-02-24 04:05:06 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋