1. Prior to Lavoisier, the phlogiston theory was the standard theory of combustion.

2. For Lavoisier the crucial principle behind chemistry had been the conservation of matter.

3. Somewhat ; I know Lavoisier and was the intimate friend of Cabanis.

4. Lavoisier weighed gases and measured heat a calorimeter, as well as clarifying language and chemical thinking.

5. Since Antoine Lavoisier, we all know that "matter can be neither created nor destroyed, though it can be rearranged, " which, sadly, it eventually will.

6. Lavoisier realized that this was a discovery which would bring about a tremendous revolution in chemistry.

7. Chemistry as we know it today, was invented by Antoine Lavoisier with his law of Conservation of mass in 1783.