![This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.](/assets/img/quote-photos/this-theory-the-oxygen-theory-is-not-as-i-have-heard-it-described-that-of-the.jpg)
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