Oxygen theory of combustion
Teoría de la combustión como oxidación (fin del flogisto)
- Date
- 1777 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris (Arsenal), France
- Credited to
- Antoine Lavoisier
- People
- 👤 Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier1743–1794
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Combustion and calcination are combinations with oxygen from the air, which explains the weight gain of calcined metals. Lavoisier also identifies respiration as slow combustion.
Memoirs 'Sur la combustion en général' (1777) and 'Réflexions sur le phlogistique' (1783).
What it led to
- Chemical revolution
- Modern nomenclature
- Bioenergetics
Built on
- Priestley's and Scheele's oxygen
- Rey and Boyle's calcination experiments
Made possible
- Lavoisier and Laplace ice calorimeter1782-1783
- ice calorimeter (Lavoisier-Laplace)
- rational metallurgical processes