Lavoisier's Life
____ was the country where Lavoisier was born.
France
Lavoisier disproved the theory of _______.
Phlogiston
_____ ______ was an everyday gas identified by Joseph Black in 1766. Many types of organisms need this gas to live
Carbon Dioxide
What major war, which began in 1775, resulted in the independence of a colony from an empire?
The American Revolution.
What does pencil lead contain?
Not lead, graphite.
What was the age of Lavoisier's wife when he married her? (He was 28)
14 (or 13 depending on the source)
What was (arguably) the MOST important discovery to chemistry that Lavoisier contributed
Which gas was discovered in 1766 and was so light it eventually allowed people to fly in the first gas balloons?
Hydrogen
The Age of Enlightenment was inspired by which two Revolutions?
American and French
This is the only letter in the alphabet that is not seen anywhere in the Periodic Table.
The letter "J"
French Revolution
Lavoisier discovered the composition of ____. (2 things)
Water and air
The _______ ______ was a crucial breakthrough in industrial chemistry that allowed for the mass production of soda ash (sodium carbonate) from common salt.
Leblanc Process
When was Benjamin Franklin born
1706
Bananas are____
A. Made from only 2 elements
B. Radioactive
C. Made from mostly metal elements
D. All of the Above
E. None of the Above
Radioactive
What was Lavoisier's job
A tax collector
True or False:
Lavoisier helped developed the metric system
True
Uranium was discovered by which German chemist in 1786?
Martin Klaproth
The Age of Enlightenment "created" the "universal" ideals of liberty, reason, and inherent individual rights. What profound contradiction existed between these stated philosophical ideals and the personal actions or beliefs of many key Enlightenment figures
Many of them owned slaves.
Guillaume Franaois Rouelle was the professor that introduced Lavoisier to ____.
phlogiston
What was Lavoisier's final experiment and what was the result
Finding out how many times he could blink before losing consciousness, which was 15-20 times.
What common gas—which we now know is produced by both fire and human breath—did Joseph Black discover, proving for the first time that "air" was not just one single element?
CO2
The French Revolution nearly replaced the normal calendar with the French Revolution Calendar. What are ALL changes did the French Revolution Calendar bring?
Decimal times, removal of ALL religious references, changing the year from 1792 to Year 1, making all months and days related to nature, and a 10 day week.