Royal Gunpowder Administration

In 1775, Lavoisier was appointed Chief of the Royal Gunpowder Administration. In this position, Lavoisier reformulated French gunpowders and improved their quality to become the best in Europe. At his arsenal lab, Lavoisier continued his chemical experiments. Lavoisier focused much of his attention on acids. He was the first to use the term oxygine in September of 1777, a word derived from the Greek terms oxys and gen meaning acid producing. Lavoisier believed incorrectly oxygine was a basic component in all acids. 

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent de (1743-1794) French chemist ( father of modern chemistry ) 1764 onward at the Academy of Sciences, 1775 commissioner of the Royal Gunpowder Administration and residence in the Paris Arsenal opening of a laboratory in the Arsenal 1785-1789 collaboration with Claude Berthollet, Antoine de Fourcroy and Guyton de Morveau 1789 co-editor of the newly founded Annales de chimie. Wrote 1789 the revolutionary book Traite elementaire de chimie. 8 May 1794 executed on the guillotine. 

In 1775 Lavoisier was appointed scientific director of the Royal Gunpowder Administration, and he and Marie moved to the Paris Arsenal. Here Lavoisier set up a laboratory and immediately found pro-... 

When the Revolution began, Lavoisier was still a director of the Saltpeter and Gunpowder Administration and also a director of the Discount Bank, the bank that had propped up the government by repeatedly making large loans to the Royal Treasury. After the Revolution, the bank continued to operate and provided currency by issuing banknotes and continued to lend the government money. On... 

The Arsenal Group came to control the most important chemical establishments around Paris after Macquer s death in 1784. In addition to Lavoisier s stewardship of the Gunpowder Administration, Berthollet was appointed to the royal dye factory and Fourcroy to the... 

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