The Creation of Chemistry

Among many other accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier named the elements _____

• hydrogen and helium

• hydrogen and oxygen

• helium and oxygen

• hydrogen and carbon

Among many other accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier, _____

• published the very first chemistry textbook
• formed the Law of Definite Proportions
• gathered real data supporting the idea of atoms
• figured out how to weigh atoms and molecules

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The Law of Conservation of Mass used to be called _____

• Lavoisier's Law
• Dalton's Law
• Proust's Law
• Avogadro's Law

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As his father expected, Lavoisier became licensed to practice _____

• surgery
• law
• pharmacy
• accounting

Before Lavoisier, it was thought that flammable substances contained an element called _____

• pyrogen
• tindergen
• infernogen
• phlogiston

Lavoisier named the lightest element "hydrogen" because it was generated from _____

• hydronium
• water
• hydroelectricity
• heated air

Prior to Lavoisier, early experimenters noticed that when you burned something its mass _____

• stayed the same
• increased
• decreased
• fluctuated

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Lavoisier determined that if all the particles of a reaction are collected, the mass _____

• stays the same
• increases
• decreases
• fluctuates

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Lavoisier, a tax collector and a supporter of the French Revolution, was _____

• imprisoned in 1788

• beheaded in 1794

• hanged in 1798

• poisoned in 1802

Lagrange stated "It took them only an instant to cut off that head, but ...

• Germany may not yield another like it for decades."
• France may not produce another like it in a century."
• England may not grow another like it for eons."
• science may never see one like it again."