The Balance and the Blade

Antoine Lavoisier weighed what everyone else only watched. Burn phosphorus in a sealed jar, run his twelve days with mercury, and split water into two gases — then follow the tax-farming job that paid for the laboratory and sent him to the guillotine at fifty. Episode 03 of the Great Scientists series.

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