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(1777-01-27): Experiments on animal respiration carried out with Bucquet. A guinea pig placed under a bell jar filled with oxygen died after two hours and twenty five minutes.
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(1777-04): Experiment on the combustion of candles to verify that the air diminishes in volume through the formation and solution of carbon dioxide.
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(1777-05-31): Experiment on combustion of pyrophore. Diminution of the volume of gas (first air, then oxygen) in which is burned.
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(1777-07-22): Action of nitric acid on sugar; study of gases collected. Experiments reported in a memoir presented September 5, 1777.
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(1777-09): Lavoisier and Bucquet carry out the combustion of hydrogen (from sulphuric acid and iron) in an open bottle in the presence of limewater; they find that carbon dioxide is not formed.
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(1777-11-27): Measures specific heats of various liquids by the rate at which they warm up in a constant temperature bath.
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