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Describe the comtribution of Robert Boyle, Joeseph Priestly, and Antoine Lavoisier toward the discovery of gas' ability to support life.
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Robert Boyle, who is best known for Boyle's Law, showed that both animals and flames died in a vacuum indicating that air contained something that is required both to maintain life and to keep a candle burning. Joseph Priestly continued his discovery by conducting an experiment in which he found that mice lived longer if plant material is present in the container. Antoine Lavoisier named the gas that allows survival "oxygen". He discovered that animals and burning coal consume O2 releasing CO2 and heat. Since then on, more scientific experiments have been done to develop humans' knowledge on respiration and its related functions.
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