A Chronology of Lavoisier's Career. Prepared by Maurice Daumas, Henry Guerlac and Carl Perrin. Edited by Marco Beretta
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A Chronology of Lavoisier's career
Experiments
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event
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(1773-06-30): Combustion of phosphorous over mercury with a burning glass.
"Il aurait été bien inéressant de rassembler cet acide dans cet état pour le peser et avoir l'augmentation du poids pour voir si elle était proportionelle ŕ l'absorption." Difficulties because of its deliquescience. The sentence shows that gain in weight was already an accepted fact for him.