Elements of Chemistry

The debt of modern chemistry to Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) is incalculable. With Lavoisier''s discoveries of the compositions of air and water (he gave the world the term ''oxygen'') and his analysis of the process of combustion, he was able to bury once and for all the then prevalent phlogiston doctrine. He also recognized chemical elements as the ultimate residues of chemical analysis and, wi...