Fire, water, and air / Baxter, Roberta

ISBN13: 
9781599350875
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firewaterandairthestoryofantoinelavoisier
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920

Fire, water, and air

the story of Antoine Lavoisier
2009
A biography of chemist Antoine Lavoisier who identified oxygen and hydrogen, studied the conservation of mass, wrote the first major list of elements, and helped develop the metric system. Describes how old rivals raised suspicion about him during the French Revolution that led to his beheading.
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