s  to befound—Lavoisier failed to uncover a single one. It certainly  for  of beakers.

    Lavoisier een t o an almost preposterous degree, t private laboratory in existence.

    Instead ook t ponand mepic airs. ified oxygen and  t, o bring rigor, clarity, and meto cry.

    And  did in fact come in very remely exacting studies requiring tmeasurements. termined, for instance, t a rusting object doesn’t lose ed t tracting elemental particles from t  realization tmatter can be transformed but not eliminated. If you burned ts matter  amount of stuff in the same.

    tion of mass, and it ionary concept.

    Unfortunately, it coincided ype of revolution—tirely on the wrong side.

    Not only  ically builtt enclosed Paris—an edifice so loat it  ttacked by tizens. Capitalizing on t, noionalAssembly, denounced Lavoisier and suggested t it  time for his hanging.

    Soon after do long after t e Corday, but by time it oolate for Lavoisier.

    In 1793, terror, already intense, ratced up to a oberMarie Antoinette  to tine. tardy plans to slip ao Scotland, Lavoisier ed. In May y-one felloribunal (in acourtroom presided over by a bust of Marat). Eiged acquittals, but Lavoisier andtaken directly to tion (noe of t of Frencines. Lavoisier cepped up and accepted e. Less ter, on July 27, Robespierrecerrorsly ended.

    A er atue of Lavoisier ed in Paris and mucil someone pointed out t it looked notioning tor admitted t ician and p—apparently  no one ice or, iced, . ta