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jan 1, 1798 - Antoine Lavoiser defended the law of conservation of mass.

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Lavoiser burned wood and saw that the mass didn't change. This lead him to define an element as the basic substance that couldn't be broken down by chemical methods.

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jan 1, 1798
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~ 228 years ago

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