jan 1, 1789 - Antoine Lavoisier: Discovered the law of conservation of mass which states that mass can neither be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction; Mass is conserved in a chemical reaction; The total mass of the products of a chemical reaction is always the same as the total mass of the starting materials consumed in the reaction
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