Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, acidity

Cadet de Gassicourt, Louis Claude, and Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Rapport sur un memoire sur la decomposition de I acide nitreux. PV 97, 1778, 87r-89v (March 11) reprinted in Oeuvres de Lavoisier, IV, 298-300. 

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Projet d un memoire sur les differens degres d affinite des acides en exces avec les differentes substances (Sept. 3, 1766) [Lavoisier Dossier 323, AdSj. 

Kirwan, Richard. An Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids (London J. Johnson, 1789) second edition (London Frank Cass Co., 1968). Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Oeuvres de Lavoisier, 6 vols. (Paris Imprimerie... 

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Memoire sur la Combustion en General (read on Nov. 12, 1777). Memoires, Mil (1780), 592-600 Oeuvres II, 225-233. Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Considerations generales sur la nature des acides et sur les principes dont ils sont composes (submitted on Sept. 5, 1777 and read on Nov. 23,1779). Memoires, 1778 (1781), 535-547 Oeuvres II, 248-260. Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Extrait d un memoire lu par M. Lavoisier a la seance publique de FAcademie royale des sciences, du 12 novembre, sur la nature de Feau. Observations 23, 1783, 452-455. 

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. Consideration generales sur la dissolution des metaux dans les acides. Memoires 1782 (1785), 492-511 Oeuvres II, 509-527. 

Sadly, Priestley missed the significance of his discovery. From knowledge of Priestley s findings, Antoin-Laurent Lavoisier realised the theoretical importance of them the gas that he had found that reacted with carbon in food to form a weak acid (carbonic acid) was Priestley s gas. He called the new air oxygen , from the Greek words oxys (sour, acidic) and genous (origin, descent). 

Lavoisier, Memoire sur I existence de I air dans I acide nitreux, et sur les moyens de decomposer de recomposer cet acide Memoires, 1776 (pub. 1779), 671-680 Oeuvres, volume 2, 129-138 Guerlac, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, 91-92. 

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794). French chemist, sometimes referred to as the father of modern chemistry. In addition to his role in verifying the principle of the conservation of mass, he made important contributions to chemical nomenclature and to the understanding of the role of oxygen in combustion, respiration, and acidity. For his role as a tax collector for the king, Lavoisier was guillotined during the French Revolution. 

The non-metal oxide reactions with water led Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1713-1794) to associate the acidity principle with elemental oxygen, but Sir Humphry Davy, in the beginning of the XIX century, was the first to suggest that the acidifying principle was owed to hydrogen — as in the case of hydrochloric acid. 

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier made important investigations about the burning of phosphorus. In 1772 he classified phosphorus as an element and showed that it is the oxide of that element which forms phosphoric acid with water. In the 1840s, Jakob Berzelius made the first observation that phosphorus has the two modifications, red and white. 

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