BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 555 



1777. "On Combustion in General." Oxygen theory of com- 

 bustion, 42 



1777. "The Nature of Acids and the Principles of which they 



are composed." The oxygen-theory of acids, 42, 176, 

 246, 248 ; the name oxygen, 43 



1778. "Memoir on Heat" by Lavoisier and Laplace; con- 



tinued during the winter, 1783-1784 ; an important 

 physical memoir, containing a description of the ice- 

 calorimeter 



1783. " Memoir to prove that Water is not a Simple Substance 



but that it is susceptible of Decomposition and Recom- 

 position" (1777) No acid formed by burning inflam- 

 mable air in common air or (1781) in oxygen, 117 ; 

 (1783) pure water prepared by burning hydrogen and 

 oxygen, 117 ; water produced by reduction of metal- 

 lic calces, 124 ; combustion of charcoal and composi- 

 tion of fixed air, 145 



1784. " Decomposition of Water," by Meusnier and Lavoisier. 



Steam decomposed by red-hot iron, 118 



1784. " Combination of Oxygen with Spirit of Wine, Oil, and 

 different Combustible Bodies.' 5 Water produced by 

 burning spirit of wine, 386 ; composition of spirit of 

 wine, of olive oil and of a candle, 146, 386 

 Also several memoirs on combustion, respiration and the 

 theory of phlogiston 



1789. Elementary Treatise (Traite Eldmentaire de Chimie). 

 Calcination of mercury, 40 ; list of thirty elements, 

 449 ; alkalis as compounds, 257, 280*; salts as com- 

 pounds of two oxides, 394 ; organic compounds con- 

 tain oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen, with nitrogen 

 and phosphorus, 386 ; composition of organic acids, 

 387, 398 ; use of quantitative methods, 297 ; vinous 

 fermentation and the conservation of mass, 388 ; 

 chemical equations, 388 



All quotations are translated from the complete Works 

 (Oeuvres de Lavoisier} published in six volumes, 1842-1893 



LAVOISIER, GUYTON DE MORVEAU, BERTHOLLET AND 



FOURCROY 



1787. Chemical Nomenclature ( Methode de Nomencla- 

 ture Chimique, tr. 1788). Nomenclature of salts, 

 17 ; carbon, 98 ; carbonic acid and carbonates, 103 ; 

 hydrogen, 117; nitric acid and nitrates, 198, 199; 

 oxygen, 42 ; " oxygenated muriatic acid " (chlorine), 

 215 ; phosphoric acid and phosphates, 179; phos- 

 phorous acid and phosphites, 180 ; prussic acid and 



