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When was Antoine Lavoisier’s new chemical naming system published?

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Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left. — Antoine Lavoisier Antoine Lavoisier.

Antoine Lavoisier’s new chemical naming system was published in 1787.12

Lavoisier collaborated with three prominent colleagues—Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine-François Fourcroy—to produce the work titled Méthode de nomenclature chimique ("Method of Chemical Nomenclature"). This publication provided a definitive reform of names in inorganic chemistry, establishing a system that remains the foundation of chemical nomenclature used today.12