This person experimented with Pierre-Simon Laplace [luh-PLAHSS] on specific heats; they found that animals and flames received the same amount of energy from given compounds.
This person experimented with Pierre-Simon Laplace [luh-PLAHSS] on specific heats; they found that animals and flames received the same amount of energy from given compounds. This person also repeated Cavendish's and Priestley's air experiments, naming hydrogen and using the term "azote" [AY-zote] to refer to nitrogen. He included light and caloric in his list of elements, which appeared in a textbook that included his statement of the law of mass conservation. Name this scientist, guillotined during the French Revolution, who disproved phlogiston [fluh-JISS-tun] theory and became known as the Father of Modern Chemistry.
This person experimented with Pierre-Simon Laplace [luh-PLAHSS] on specific heats; they found that animals and flames received the same amount of energy from given compounds.
Antoine(-Laurent) Lavoisier