Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Lavoisier was a French chemist. He correctly explained the role of oxygen in combustion.
By carefully weighing and analyzing materials after burning,
he showed that burned materials are heavier than unburned materials.
This was because of the addition of a gas , discovered by scheele and Priestley. Lavoisier named it oxygen.
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