Question

define Lavoisier's experiment on air and atmosphere​

Answer 1

Answer:

Oxygen Theory Of Combustion

Explanation:

The oxygen theory of combustion resulted from a demanding and sustained campaign to construct an experimentally grounded chemical theory of combustion, respiration, and calcination. The theory that emerged was in many respects a mirror image of the phlogiston theory, but gaining evidence to support the new theory involved more than merely demonstrating the errors and inadequacies of the previous theory. From the early 1770s until 1785, when the last important pieces of the theory fell into place, Lavoisier and his collaborators performed a wide range of experiments designed to advance many points on their research frontier.

Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier at a distillation furnace in his laboratory. A guillotine looms through the open door, a reminder that he was executed during the French Revolution.

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Lavoisier’s research in the early 1770s focused upon weight gains and losses in calcination. It was known that when metals slowly changed into powders (calxes), as was observed in the rusting of iron, the calx actually weighed more than the original metal, whereas when the calx was “reduced” to a metal, a loss of weight occurred. The phlogiston theory did not account for these weight changes, for fire itself could not be isolated and weighed. Lavoisier hypothesized that it was probably the fixation and release of air, rather than fire, that caused the observed gains and losses in weight. This idea set the course of his research for the next decade.