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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1998  > February  >
Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
Lavoisier Preempted Gay-Lussac by 20 Years!
Michael Laing
University of Natal, Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Private Bag X10, Dalbridge, Durban 4014, SOUTH AFRICA
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February 1998
Vol. 75 No. 2
p. 177
Abstract
In his Traite E lementaire, Anton Lavoisier states clearly that exactly two volumes of hydrogen gas react with one volume of oxygen gas to yield water. One may well speculate that had he not been guillotined in 1794, Lavoisier would in all probability have deduced by 1810 that oxygen and hydrogen were diatomic. Thus atomic weights would have been correctly differentiated from equivalent weights fifty years before the Karlsruhe conference.
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*  Citation
 Laing, Michael. J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 177.
*  Keywords
 History/Philosophy, Public Understanding/Appreciation, Gases, Periodicity/Periodic Table, and Atomic Properties/Structure
*  History
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Last Updated:		 June 28, 1999
June 23, 2005
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