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Chemical Education Today
Ask the Historian
Did Lavoisier Blink?
William B. Jensen
Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
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May 2004
Vol. 81 No. 5
p. 629
Abstract
In response to a reader query, the column discusses the reasons for Lavoisier's execution and debunks the myth that he had arranged a postmortem experiment with the mathematician Lagrange to determine whether he retained consciousness after being guillotined.
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*  Citation
 Jensen, William B. J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81 629.
*  Keywords
 Biography*; History / Philosophy; Lavoisier*
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Last Updated:		 April 1, 2004
February 18, 2005
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