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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) has been called the founder of modern chemistry. Among his important contributions were the application of the balance and the principle of conservation of mass to chemistry, the explanation of combustion and respiration in terms of combination with oxygen rather than loss of phlogiston, and a reform of chemical nomenclature.
His "Elements of Chemistry" (Traité Élementaire de Chimie), written in 1789, was a tremendously influential synthesis of his work.
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Publish dateOct 11, 2019
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Table of contents
1Preface of the Author.
2Part I.
3Of the Combinations of Caloric, and the Formation of Elastic Aëriform Fluids.
4General Views relative to the Formation and Composition of our Atmosphere.
5Analysis of Atmospheric Air, and its Division into two Elastic Fluids; the one fit for Respiration, the other incapable of being respired.
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6Nomenclature of the several Constituent Parts of Atmospheric Air.
7Of the Decomposition of Oxygen Gas by Sulphur, Phosphorus, and Charcoal â and of the Formation of Acids in general.
8Of the Nomenclature of Acids in general, and particularly of those drawn from Nitre and Sea-Salt.
9Of the Decomposition of Oxygen Gas by means of Metals, and the Formation of Metallic Oxyds.
10Of the Radical Principle of Water, and of its Decomposition by Charcoal and Iron.
11Of the quantities of Caloric disengaged from different species of Combustion.
12Of the Combination of Combustible Substances with each other.
13Observations upon Oxyds and Acids with several Bases - and upon the Composition of Animal and Vegetable Substances.
14Of the Decomposition of Vegetable and Animal Substances by the Action of Fire.
15Of the Decomposition of Vegetable Oxyds by the Vinous Fermentation.
16Of the Putrefactive Fermentation.
17Of the Acetous Fermentation.
18Of the Formation of Neutral Salts, and of their different Bases.
19Continuation of the Observations upon Salifiable Bases, and the Formation of Neutral Salts.
20Part II. (pt. 1)
21Part II. (pt. 2)
22Part III.
23Of the Instruments necessary for determining the Absolute and Specific Gravities of Solid and Liquid Bodies.
24Of Gazometry, or the Measurement of the Weight and Volume of Aëriform Substances.
25Description of the Calorimeter, or Apparatus for measuring Caloric.
26Of Mechanical Operations for Division of Bodies.
27Of Chemical Means for separating the Particles of Bodies from each other; without Decomposition, and for uniting them again.
28Of Pneumato-chemical Distillations, Metallic Dissolutions, and some other operations which require very complicated instruments.
29Of the Composition and Application of Lutes.
30Of Operations upon Combustion and Deflagration.
31Of Deflagration.
32Of the Instruments necessary for Operating upon Bodies in very high Temperatures.
33Appendix. - No. I.
34No. II.
35No. III.
36No. IV. Additional.
37No. V. Additional.
38No. VI.
39No. VII.
40No. VIII. Additional.
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