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Antoine Lavoisier[edit]

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

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 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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  • Nominate and support. - HappyApple 03:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Is he wearing sunglasses? how funny.--Deglr6328 07:12, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I don't think you can amplify sunlight but you can focus it. Is this what's meant and so should the caption be changed? - Adrian Pingstone 15:34, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Caption now changed.HappyApple 20:43, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • oppose It isn't very representative of Lavoisier 195.186.159.132 11:00, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, this is my vote. I forgot to login- Glaurung 11:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Hard to see what the image is illustrating. Enochlau 03:05, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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

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