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(1780): Publication of the Atlas et Description minéralogiques de la France. After Guettard's retirement the project had been handed over to Monnet, inspector general of mines, who failed to give Lavoisier proper credit for his share of the work.
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(1780): A manuscript in Lavoisier's hand reporting on Meusnier's method of calculating wall thickness required to resist the explosion of a given quantity of gunpowder. Meusnier's memoir had been prompted by an earlier report (by Franklin, Le Roy, Perront
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(1780): Note inviting Benjamin Franklin to dine with M. Lavoisier, M. Magellan and several members of the Académie.
Calendar of Franklin Papers, vol. 2, p. 334.
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(1780): Lavoisier acquires several instruments related to experiments on electricity.
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(1780): Lavoisier begins his study on calorimetry with a newly designed apparatus
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(1780): Lavoisier drafts a history of phlogiston.
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(1780-01-26): The Académie, at request of Necker, appoints a commission (Lavoisier, Tenon, Le Roy, Duhamle de Monceau and de Montigny) to report on a proposed plan for new prisons. At the same meeting M. Colombier read a memoir on prison reform.
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(1780-03-02): At the Académie: reading of a Mémoire sur un procédé particulier pour convertir le phosphore en acide.
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(1780-03-03): Action of nitric acid on phosphrous. Study of gas produced.
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(1780-03-17): Report to the Académie on prisons by committee consisting of Duhamel, Montigny, Le Roye, Tenon, and Lavoisier.
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(1780-03-23): Letter from d'Alembert to Lavoisier. Says he has read Lavoisier's letter to Madame Necker and she would be pleased to receive a copy of the Académie's report on prisons as soon as possible.
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(1780-03-25): Letter from Lavoisier to Madame Necker. He sends along the Académie's report. Mentions difficulty experienced in gaining access to prisons: "Croiriez-vous, Madame, que, tandis que les prisons sont en quelque façon ouvertes à tout le publiquy
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(1780-03-30): Madame Necker reply to Lavoisier. She has praise for the Académie's zeal in preparing the report on prisons, but, in bringing together this report and thos from the Académie d'Architecture and Société de Médecine, she is aware of a veneer co
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(1780-04-12): Macquer and Lavoisier reports on:
three memoirs by Berthollet on causticity of metallic salts. Suggestion that another interpretation (non-phlogistic) might be equally satisfactory;
on Berthollet's memoir on arsenic acid;
on Quatremère's
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(1780-04-15): At the Académie: second reading of Mémoire sur la nature des acides et sur les principes dont ils sont composées (presented September 5, 1777 and first read November 23, 1777).
P-V, 178, fol. 103.
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(1780-05-10): A commission of the Académie (Le Roy, Cousin and Sage) reports unfavorably on Marat's second memoir (in which he attacks Newton).
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(1780-06-10): Lavoisier reads to the Académie Marat's article from the Journal de Paris in which he claims the Académie's approval for his ideas on the element of fire. It is pointed out that no such approval was granted in the official report.
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(1780-07-26): Letter from Lavoisier to Franklin concerning financial plight of Nicholas Fouquet (a former subordinate of Lavoisier's) who had recently returned from America where he had advised on the gunpowder-making process.
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(1780-10-18): Letter of Franklin to Macquer introducing the bearer (a Mr. Foulk) and dated Passy. Refers to meeting "l'autre jour chez M. L'Avoisier."
BNF, Mss. Fr, 12306, vol. 1.
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(1780-11-09): Letter from Lavoisier to Franklin on a shipment of saltpetre to America.
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(1780-11-18): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu un second Mémoire sur différentes combinaisons de l'acide phosphorique."
P-V, 1780, fol. 251.
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(1780-11-25): At the Académie Lavoisier read a Mémoire sur quelques fluides. The continuation of a memoir read December 6, 1777. Uses the term "air vital". Exposes his views on changes of state, influence of temperature and pressure, constitution of atomo
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(1780-12-02): At the Académie Lavoisier reads a Mémoire sur un procédé particulier pour connaitre le phosphore et l'acide phosphorique.
P-V, 1780, fol. 258.
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(1780-12-22): The chemistry section reports to the Académie on attempts to find improved methods of separating gold and silver.
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