Nothing Is Born, Nothing Dies.

It Required 85 Parts By Weight Of Oxygen And 15 Parts Of Hydrogen To Compose 100 Parts Of Water.

It Is Not Only By The Pores Of The Skin That This Aqueous Emaciation Takes Place. A Considerable Quantity Of Humidity Is Also Exhaled By The Lungs At Each Expiration.

One Succeeds In Obtaining An Equivalent Production At A Lower Price By Improving The Arts, Trades And Agriculture And By Developing The Physical And Moral Qualities Of Workers, Farmers And Craftsmen.

Thus, While I Thought Myself Employed Only In Forming A Nomenclature, And While I Proposed To Myself Nothing More Than To Improve The Chemical Language, My Work Transformed Itself By Degrees, Without My Being Able To Prevent It, Into A Treatise Upon The Elements Of Chemistry.

Sulfur, When Burning, Absorbs Oxygen Gas; The Resulting Acid Is Considerably Heavier Than The Sulfur Burned; Its Weight Is Equal To The Sum Of Weights Of The Sulfur Burned And The Oxygen Absorbed.