Combustion diamond-like carbon

Lavoisier s earliest studies showed a respect for precise measurement. He demonstrated that diamonds decompose in strong heat (Boyle had proven this a century earlier) but showed that air was necessary and that the decomposition product turned lime water milky and was thus fixed air (CO ). In 1772 his studies extended to the combustion of phosphorus and sulfur, which, like carbon, produced acid airs that weighed more than the solids that produced them. Similarly, he verified the observation by Jean Rey in 1630, also noted by Boyle and others, that the calxes formed hy heating metals were heavier than the metals themselves. In his first great book (Opuscules Chimiques et Physiques, Paris, 1774 Essays Physical and Chemical, London, 1776), Lavoisier first offered the idea that these processes involved absorption of some elastic fluid present in air rather than loss of phlogiston to the air. In this hook he confused this elastic fluid with fixed air. ... 

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