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(1786-01): Lavoisier acquires from Fortin an electrical machine to be used during new experiments on the decomposition of water.
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(1786-01-06): Death of Jean Etienne Guettard. Lavoisier collects material to write the éloge.
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(1786-02-15): Letter of Tillet, Pissonier, Lavoisier, Darcet, and Dupont to the Controller Genera of Finance concerning funds for the department of agriculture.
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(1786-02-23): Research on electrical phenomena. Notion that electricity is a slow combustion, electrical effects resulting from decomposition of air. Uses an electrical machine in a vacum chamber, constructed by Fortin, to examine effects in vacuum and in
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(1786-02-27): Publication of Développement des dernières expériences sur la décomposition et la recomposition de l'eau, an account of the large scale synthesis carried out by Lavoisier and Meusnier de la Place on the 26 and 27 February 1785.
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(1786-04-03): Determination of the density of nitrogen. Followed by notes on similar determination for atmospheric air (1 March 1764, March and April 1785) and for oxygen (27 July 1785).
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(1786-05-17): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu un Mémoire sur la combustion du fer."
P-V, 1786, fol. 179.
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(1786-06-17): A report on the ciders of Normandie is presented to the Académie by Cadet, Baumé, Darcet, Berthollet and Lavoisier.
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(1786-06-22): Experiments on the formation of nitric acid. Continuation of the experiments of October 1785; brings oxygen and nitrous air into contact in an "eudiomètre hydrostatique."
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(1786-06-23): Lavoisier and Darcet report to the Académie on Dietrich's work on mineral wealth and iron works of the Pyrénées.
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(1786-07): Lavoisier and Darcet report to the Académie on two further mineralogical works of Dietrich.
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(1786-08-06) (1786-09-15): Study of the germination of garden gress seeds under vacuum, in oxygen and in nitrogen. Examination of gases liberated.
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(1786-08-12): Lavoisier presents a memoir at the Comité d'Agriculture.
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(1786-09-16): Experiments on alcoholic fermentation. Addition of barm (levure de bière) to a sugar solution; the fixed air evolved in absorbed by solution of alkali. Similar experiments the 27 April and 5 June 1787.
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(1786-09-20) (1786-09-29): At the Arsenal: experiments on a new combustible proposed by M. le Prieur du Temple are carried out by members of the committee on agriculture, the Régisseurs de poudres and representatives of the Académie.
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(1786-09-27): Heat of combustion of spirit of wine.
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(1786-11-04): Letter of Lavoisier to Guyton de Morveau on large scale fabrication of platinum for commercial use.
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(1786-11-09): Gold dissolved in aqua regia; weights and measures. Continued February 20, 1787.
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(1786-11-14): Letter from Lavoisier to the editors of the Journal de Paris referring to his letter to Guyton de Morveau, published without his authorization on November 4.
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(1786-11-15): Public session of the Académie: not enough time for Lavoisier to read "Réflexions sur la décomposition de l'eau par les substances végétales et animales. First generalizations on the composition of organic matter: "Elles ne contient ni eau,
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(1786-11-22): Commissioners appointed by the Académie (de Lassone, Daubenton, Tenon, Bailly, Lavoisier, Laplace and Darcet), to report on Poyet's memoir on the need to the replace the hôtel-Dieu de Paris by a new hospital. The commissioners instead recomm
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(1787): Lavoisier presents a memorandum on the Comité d'agriculture. Interesting in that it contains Lavoisier's own statement that he is secretary.
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(1787): Publication of Ehrmann's work on fusion at high temperatures with an oxygen-enhanced flame, closely paralleling Lavoisier's work. Lavoisier insists that his memoir on the subject be printed with Ehrmann's essay.
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(1787-01-05): New experiment on the heat of formation of water. The laboratory notebook says 5 January 1786, but it is surely 1787. Prepared the 5th, the experiment is done the 13th and repeated the 16th.
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(1787-01-05): Lavoisier, Berthollet and Sage report to the Académie on a new process for making paper.
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