Antoine Lavoisier (1743 - 1797)

Current Atomic Model

1. He is considered to be the pioneer of modern chemistry.
2. He used the scientific method and did careful and controlled experiments.
3. Because of his methods he was able to determine correctly what was happening during the combustion of metals. Stemming from this work and other experiments, he is credited with developing evidence for the Law of Conservation of Mass in 1777.
4. The Law of Conservation of Mass states that during chemical reactions matter is neither created or destroyed. The mass of the reactants should be equivalent to the mass of the products.

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