Elements of Chemistry The New York Times applauded

The New York Times applauded this oral history as "great fun

2-person zero-sum games

Reprint of the Math Sci Press

sometimes startling

Combining elements of dance

Elements of Chemistry The New York Times applaudedThe debt of modern chemistry to Antoine Lavoisier (17431794) is incalculable. With Lavoisier's discoveries of the compositions of air and water (he gave the world the term 'oxygen') and his analysis of the process of combustion, he was able to bury once and for all the then prevalent phlogiston doctrine. He also recognized chemical elements as the ultimate residues of chemical analysis and, with others, worked out the beginnings of the modern system