BASIC LIFE FACTS
Born on August 26, 1743, this city was Antoine Lavoisier’s birthplace.
What is Paris?
Lavoisier attended this elite school, where he studied law but preferred science lectures.
What is the Collège Mazarin?
According to phlogiston theory, combustible materials released this fire-like substance when burned.
What is phlogiston?
Lavoisier proved that combustion requires this element from the air.
What is oxygen?
This law states that matter is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
Lavoisier was the only child of a family belonging to this social class.
What is the bourgeois (wealthy middle) class?
Instead of practicing law, Lavoisier attended public and private lectures in these subjects.
What are chemistry and physics?
This German scientist formalized the phlogiston theory in the early 18th century.
Who is Georg Ernst Stahl?
Lavoisier showed that burning is not the release of phlogiston but this type of process.
What is chemical combination with oxygen?
Lavoisier proved conservation of mass using experiments in this type of system.
What is a closed system?
Although he earned a degree in this field, he chose science instead.
What is law?
Early in his career, Lavoisier worked with scientists studying the Earth, known as these specialists.
What are geologists?
Phlogiston theory claimed metals lost phlogiston during this process.
What is combustion or calcination?
This everyday process was shown by Lavoisier to involve oxygen, just like combustion.
What is respiration (breathing)?
This tool allowed Lavoisier to measure substances with extreme accuracy.
What is a balance (scale)?
At only 25 years old, Lavoisier was elected to this prestigious scientific organization.
What is the French Academy of Sciences?
This incorrect theory initially interested Lavoisier before he challenged it experimentally.
What is the phlogiston theory?
A major flaw of phlogiston theory was that metals actually did this when heated in air.
What is gain mass?
Lavoisier proved that water is made of these two elements.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
This famous quote summarizes conservation of mass.
What is “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed”?
Lavoisier was executed by guillotine during this violent period of French history.
What is the Reign of Terror (French Revolution)?
Lavoisier’s goal was to either strengthen this theory with evidence or replace it with a better one.
What is the phlogiston theory?
Some supporters claimed phlogiston had this impossible property to save the theory.
What is negative mass (or negative weight)?
The study of gases in the 18th century was known by this name.
What is pneumatic chemistry?
French chemistry students still learn conservation of mass by this name.
What is Lavoisier’s Law?