Lavoisier spent a lot of time focusing on science. Lavoisier was always busy with work, his social life, and science. He made the time to be the commissioner of gunpowder, direct the building of a wall in Paris to block criminals from coming in, help invent the metric system, and coauthor the Method de Nomenclature Chimique, which helped scientists find element names. Lavoisier never discovered an element. According to the chapter Lavoisier “took the discoveries of others and made sense of them.” He gave oxygen and hydrogen modern names. Lavoisier brought accuracy and better arrangement to
