6.
Major scientific advances achieved
Through
careful experimentation and observation, scientists made a number
of revolutionary advances in the 1700's. One of the most significant
discoveries was made by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier. Lavoisier
demonstrated the nature of combustion, or burning, showing it to
be the result of the rapid union of oxygen, a newly discovered gas,
with a flammable substance.
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