Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 42
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Elements of Chemistry: In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries is a textbook written by Antoine Lavoisier published in 1789 and translated into English by Robert Kerr in 1790. It is considered to be the first modern chemical textbook.
The book defines an element as a single substance that can't be broken down by chemical analysis and from which all chemical compounds are formed, publishing his discovery
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