Antonine Laurent de Lavoisier - Can water turn into soil?

Antonine Laurent de Lavoisier's era still circulates the notion that "Water can turn into land". Some chemists have used a heating method to boil water to finally get a white sediment, which they call "soil turned into water".

Antonine does not accept this concept, according to him, water and soil are two different types of matter, how can soil be born in water?

He thought: If the water does not turn into soil, explain how the white sediment is after boiling the water, there is only a way to do the experiment yourself.

Antonine determined the weight of the water used for the experiment and the weight of the distilled water tank as an experiment, then tightened the flask, heated the water container as an experiment by heating it up.

In the process of boiling water bottles, Antonine regularly observes whether there are sediments that people still call "land" ? Boiling continuously for several days, the water was boiling and boiling, but there were no substances in the bottle.

Antonine is a frustrated workman, he is determined to do so until " new " land appears. He boiled water for 10 days in a row. At noon that day, after he finished his meal, he rushed to the kettle to boil the water, and when he looked at the vase, he was glad, what he expected had come - the white sediment appeared at the bottom of the bottle. Whether the water turns into soil will be clarified.

Antonine cooled the water and carefully filtered it to another container, he quickly weighed it to determine the weight of the water after 10 days of continuous boiling. Results showed that the water before and after the basic boil did not change.

Thus, it can be affirmed: "Land is not born from water" . Antonine stared at the white sediment, where did it come from?

As he thought of something, he gave the water pot with his experiment. The results show that the water bottle is light. Antonine was very moved, he could expose the true face of the so-called "earth-born water". He held his breath and put the white sediment on the scale, its weight was determined, it was exactly the weight of the water tank to be tested.

The Antonine blushed, he was so touched. And everything is clear, so-called "water-borne soil" is not born of water but it is made from a glass vase for experiment! The white sediment is formed by heated, impregnated glass. Since then the myth of "water turning into land" is no more.

"Not based on judgment but based on reality"
- Antonine Laurent de Lavoisier -
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