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Lavoisier while conducting a combustion experiment using a lens to focus sunlight and ignite samples.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman is considered The "father of modern chemistry", he stated the first version of the Law of Conservation of Matter, recognized and named oxygen (1778), disproved the phlogiston theory, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature and one of France's prominent scientists among Pasteur and Marie Curie. Due to his prominence in the pre-revolutionary government in France, he was beheaded at the height of the French Revolution.

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Caption now changed.HappyApple 20:43, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, this is my vote. I forgot to login- Glaurung 11:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 05:19, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]