Antoine Lavoisier quote: This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is ...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

~ Antoine Lavoisier ~

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