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Antoine Lavoisier

A French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794) widely regarded as the 'father of modern chemistry.' Through meticulous quantitative experiments, Lavoisier demonstrated that combustion and respiration were processes of combining with oxygen, not releasing phlogiston. His work on the conservation of mass and his chemical nomenclature fundamentally transformed chemistry, leading to the overthrow of the phlogiston theory.

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