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"The spread of Lavoisier's doctrines was greatly facilitated by the defined and logical form in which he presented them in his Traite Elementaire de Chimie (presente dans un ordre nouveau et d'apres les decouvertes modernes) (1789)." Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 296.
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