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The 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier and his wife Marie-Anne put fruit into a glass container, and then they sealed it. After weighing the fruit and container, they left it in a warm place for a few days. The fruit decayed, and there was condensation inside the glass and gas in the container. Lavoisier and his wife weighed the decayed fruit and the container again. The weight was the same. What scientific principle did the Lavoisier's experiment support?

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The 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier and his wife Marie-Anne put fruit into a glass container, and then they sealed it. After weighing the fruit and container, they left it in a warm place for a few days. The fruit decayed, and there was condensation inside the glass and gas in the container. Lavoisier and his wife weighed the decayed fruit and the container again. The weight was the same. What scientific principle did the Lavoisier's experiment support?

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