🎂 Chemist Antoine Lavoisier is born (1743)
Where: Paris, France
Nearby on the globe: Notre-Dame de Paris → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: August 26
August 26, 1743: Chemist Antoine Lavoisier is born. On 26 August 1743, Antoine Lavoisier was born in Paris, France. By weighing everything carefully in his experiments, he helped lay the foundations of modern chemistry, and in 1778 he gave oxygen its name. You can see his laboratory instruments at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
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🧠 Question of the day
Which gas did Lavoisier name?
- Helium
- Neon
- Oxygen
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Answer: Oxygen
Questions
What happened on August 26?
August 26, 1743: Chemist Antoine Lavoisier is born. It happened in Paris, France.
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