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The author explores the origins of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution as it centers on Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's earliest work on combustion. He shows that the main lines of Lavoisier's theory—including his theory of a heat-fluid, caloric—were elaborated well before his discovery of the role played by oxygen. Contrary to the opinion prevailing at that time, Lavoisier suspected, and demonstrated by experiment, that common air, or some portion of it, combines with substances when they ar
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- Author
- Henry Guerlac; National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501746642
- Category
- engineering
- Subjects
- Engineering, Technology & Engineering, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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