In which year did Antoine Lavoisier publish 'Methods of Chemical Nomenclature', which included the rules for naming chemical compounds that are still in use today?

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The correct answer is 1787.

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In 1787, four prominent French chemists – Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Antoine François Fourcroy – published a book with the title Méthode de nomenclature chimique.
In this book, they proposed a new nomenclature of chemical substances, explicated their principles of methodically constructing chemical names, and further presented a taxonomic table of chemical substances.
Historians of chemistry have unanimously praised the Method as a key document of eighteenth-century chemistry, particularly of Lavoisier’s epoch.
Since the nomenclatural and the taxonomic proposals of the Méthode were constructed in accordance with Lavoisier’s antiphlogistic chemical system, most historians have regarded it as a fruit and manifestation of this chemical system.