Antoine Lavoisier: carbon cycle pioneer | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press
Hello and welcome to my blog on “deep carbon science” –– a fascinating research field in the geosciences. My history of deep carbon science gives lively accounts of 150 scientists who contributed to the development of this new field over a period of four centuries. I write history by telling stories about interesting people. Here’s an extract from my account of the research of the great chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794). At the end of the eighteenth century, the quest to understand how living organisms interact with atmospheric gases dominated the research fronti...
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