Antoine Lavoisier: Scientist, Economist, Social Reformer |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbé Terray Academy of Sciences acid agriculture alkalis amount animal Antoine Lavoisier apparatus appointed Arsenal assignats August body Boyle burning calces calcination calx Cavendish charcoal chemical chemistry chemists combined combustion commissioners Committee of Public common air Controller-General of Finance corvée decree Dupin duties earth elements experiments Farm Farmers Farmers-General Ferme Générale fire fixed air Fourcroy France Fréchines French further gain in weight glass vessels Government Grimaux Guettard Gunpowder Gunpowder Commission heat increased inflammable air interest King land later Lavoi Lavoisier Lavoisier's lease matter memoir ment mercury calx metals million livres Minister mofette nobles observed obtained official Orléanais oxygen Paris phlogiston theory phosphorus powder present Priestley principles prisoners problem produced proposed provinces Provincial Assembly reform researches respiration Revolution Revolutionary Tribunal salt saltpeter scientific scientists Society States-General substances Tax-Farm taxes Terray Third Estate tion tobacco Turgot voisier weights and measures wrote