Basic Laws of Matter or the Laws of Chemical Combination Flashcards
the mass of the products in a chemical reaction will always be equal to the mass of the reactants. In other words, matter can neither be destroyed nor created no mass is lost in a chemical reaction.
Law of Conservation of Mass
The father of modern chemistry who proposed the law of conservation of mass.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
All samples of chemical compounds contain all the elements in the same proportion.
Law of Constant Composition
French chemist who discovered the Law of Constant Composition.
Joseph Proust
The elements in a compound have a proportion of those chemical compounds that can be expressed in a small, whole-number ratio.
Law of Multiple Proportions
An English chemist and meteorlogist who formulated the law of multiple proportions
John Dalton