Question

What did Antoine Lavoisier’s experiments demonstrate?

A. Atoms always split into pairs during a chemical change.
B. Mass is neither lost nor gained during a chemical change.
C. Matter can be created during a chemical change.
D. Energy is neither lost nor gained during a chemical change.

Answer 1

Lavoisier disproved the phlogiston theory. He demonstrated that there was an element called oxygen that played a major role in combustion. He also showed that the mass of products in a reaction are equal to the mass of the reactants. In other words, no mass is lost in a chemical reaction.