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May 8, 2007

Antoine Lavoisier Tried, Convicted, and Guillotined

Lavoisier was a French nobleman known today as the "father of modern chemistry." He stated the first version of the Law of Conservation of Matter, co-discovered and named oxygen, developed the first periodic table of elements, and introduced the metric system. He was also chairman of the board of the Discount Bank. He was beheaded during the Reign of Terror because, as one of the farmers general, one of his duties was to do what?
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