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(1785-04-10): At the urging of Lavoisier, then Director, the Académie names an extraordinary commission to study reforms of its structure.
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(1785-04-23): Ratification of the reforms of the Académie's structure. The "réglement" had been drawn up by Lavoisier himself.
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(1785-04-29): Preparation of oxygen. Action of sulphuric acid on manganese, and continued heating to decompose the sulphate. Repeated the 9, 14 and 16 May.
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(1785-05-07): Cadet, Darcet and Lavoisier report favorably on Pelletier's memoir on dephlogisticated marine acid although it employs phlogistic concepts.
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(1785-05-07): Combustion of spirit of wine and of olive oil to determine their compositions. Data for spirit of wine are recalculated on July 5, 1788.
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(1785-05-18): Combustion of sulphur. Most of the these combustion experiments were described in the Mémoire sur la combinaison du principe oxygène avec l'espirt de vin.
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(1785-05-30) (1785-06-10): Experiments on alcoholic fermentation.
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(1785-06-09): A notice by Lavoisier on the Académie de sciences, describing its recent reorganization, appears on the Journal de Paris.
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(1785-06-15): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu un Mémoire sur la décomposition du nitre par le charbon, imprimé dans le tome des Savants étrangers." Lavoisier announces his repetition of Cavendish's experiments relating to combination of nitrogen and ox
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(1785-06-16): First meeting of the Comité d'administration d'agriculture at the home of Vergennes.
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(1785-06-23): Second meeting of the Comité d'agriculture. Lavoisier presents a report on the organization of the Comité.
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(1785-06-28): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu des Réflexions sur le phlogistique!" Reading finished July, 13. Decisive attack against phlogiston, sums up his result published up to that time as evidence against Stahl's theory and as a reply to criticis
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(1785-07-16): Letter from Meusnier de la Place to design of a building in which a large aerostatic machine is to be built.
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(1785-07-21): At the meeting of the Comité d'agriculture Lavoisier reads Instructions sur le parcage…
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(1785-10-13): A report by Berthollet and Lavoisier on Faujas de Saint-Fond's process for extraction of tar and oil from coal.
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(1785-10-19) (1785-10-20): Experiments on the formation of nitric acid. Passes oxygen and nitrous air through separate tubes into flask containing water.
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(1785-10-31): Bachaumont on Ledoux and the building of the Paris wall (commissioned by the Ferme Générale and Lavoisier to control trade) - extravagance of the wall itself, indifference and amusement of the people who will be imprisoned by it. Mémoires se
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(1785-11-07): Letter of Meusnier de la Place to Lavoisier from Cherbourg. Suggests that the balloon which Fortin attached to the ceiling must have lost some hydrogen and probably no longer supports itself, and that in this case Fortin should remove it bef
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(1785-11-17): At a meeting of the Comité d'agriculture Lavoisier delivers a memoir.
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(1785-12-25): Study of heat of combustion of olive oil.
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(1786): Publication of Brissot's pamphlet: Un mot à l'oreille des académiciens, inspired by the report on Mesmer's animal magnetism.
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(1786): Publication of Recueil de Mémoires et de Pièces sur la formation et la fabrication du salpêtre, edited principally by Lavoisier and containing the prize essays of 1782.
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(1786): Publication of Lavoisier's Mémoire sur la fabrication du salpêtre artificielle… also appeared in the Recueil de Mémoires.
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(1786): Lavoisier and Meusnier construct an electrical apparatus to study the combustion of hydrogen.
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(1786-01) (1786-03): Decomposition of water by charcoal.
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