Lavoisier (crater)

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Lavoisier is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the lunar front side on the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum. It is located southwest of the crater von Braun, the former secondary crater Lavoisier D.

The crater wall is eroded, the interior, the annular fracture structures of a floor - fractured craters on, in the southeastern part, the groove structures connect with the subsequent addition crater Lavoisier F.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 by the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.