But these observations and the conclusions founded on them, did not bear much fruit until the time of Lavoisier, that is, towards the close of the 18th century. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Schneider is correct to say that the Economist called the Lavoisier group an Australian Government body and accurately described the nature of the Lavoisier group. From Wordnik.com. [Science Editorial « Climate Audit] Reference
The theory of Lavoisier on this point has been accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
Seeds and their By-Products, Lavoisier, New York, 1095 pp. From Wordnik.com. [2. The fundamentals of storage] Reference
In these words Lavoisier defines the chemical conception of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier, the great chemist, were both guillotined in the first. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Lavoisier employed only 4 parts of water to 1 part of dry sugar. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
Let us consider some of the work of Lavoisier in this direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier found that it was 4.940; that is, nearly 5 parts in 100. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
Lavoisier said they were produced by the decomposition of the acids. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
The experiments of Lavoisier (1743-94), which he undertook following. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Franklin, Lavoisier, and Bailly were members, the last named being chosen reporter. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
At an early age he studied chemistry, under Lavoisier, and after passing through the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Lavoisier changed the language whereby certain facts concerning acids were expressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Scheele, Lavoisier, Cavendish, and Black -- that is, towards the close of last century. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Lavoisier first made the experiment with the scales and proved this truth by actual demonstration. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Lavoisier concluded that air had not penetrated through the apparatus during the process of heating. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier now turned his attention to the calcination of metals, and particularly the calcination of tin. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier had constructed for him a pelican of white glass (see Fig. XI., p. 88), with a stopper of glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Fig.XVII. (reduced from an illustration in Lavoisier's Memoir) represents the apparatus used by Lavoisier. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Francis Bacon and Boyle were denounced by the clergy, and Lavoisier was sent to the scaffold by the Parisian mob. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier gave it the name hydrogen, signifying water former, since it had been found to be a constituent of water. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier had thrown off all the trammels which hindered the alchemists from making rigorous experimental investigations. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Finally, Lavoisier strongly heated the red precipitate; it changed to a gas, which he collected, and mercury, which he weighed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Did not astronomy wait long for Newton, and chemistry for Lavoisier, to raise them to something like the splendour they now enjoy?. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
About this time Priestley visited Paris, saw Lavoisier, and told him of the new "air" he had obtained by heating calcined mercury. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier concluded that the solid which had formed in the water was produced by the solvent action of the water on the glass vessel. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
On one of these commissions was Benjamin Franklin, then American Ambassador to France as well as the great French scientist Lavoisier. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
In Lavoisier we find an observer of nature who was predominantly interested in what the scales could tell about changes in substances. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
At the end of last century Lavoisier and Laplace, and after them, down to our own time, Dulong, Desprez, Favre and Silbermann, Andrews. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference
By accepting the accuracy of this generalisation, and using it in every experiment, Lavoisier was able to form a clear mental picture of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
A few years later Lavoisier repeated Cavendish's experiments and showed that water must be regarded as a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Lavoisier removed the cement from the stopper, and weighed the apparatus; the weight was the same as it had been before the heating began. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

