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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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(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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