Antoine Lavoisier
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- proper noun
- Antoine Lavoisier is often called the father of modern chemistry.
Examples
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Many regard Antoine Lavoisier as the founder of modern chemistry due to his groundbreaking discoveries.
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Many regard Antoine Lavoisier as the founder of modern chemistry due to his groundbreaking discoveries.
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In school, we learned how Antoine Lavoisier identified and named oxygen.
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The experiments conducted by Antoine Lavoisier forever changed scientific thought about combustion.
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Did Antoine Lavoisier really discover oxygen?
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In school, we learned how Antoine Lavoisier identified and named oxygen.
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Antoine Lavoisier is often called the father of modern chemistry.
Synonyms
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A French chemist who discovered oxygen and helped start modern chemistry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Antoine + Lavoisier
This item is a proper name composed of two personal names that carry no compositional semantic cues to the referent's profession or historical significance. A B1 learner who knows the constituent names would not be able to infer that this refers to a French chemist or the 'father of modern chemistry'—that information requires world knowledge rather than derivation from the parts.
Etymology
Antoine Lavoisier was a French scientist in the 1700s who discovered and named oxygen and changed how people understood burning. Imagine him carefully weighing things before and after burning to prove his idea, and that is why people call him the 'father of modern chemistry' today.