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Phosphorus was found by him searching for gold in urine and he called it a cold night light. It is now used in many things including toothpaste. -
Searching for a cure for kidney stones, Black discovered, "fixed" air or carbon dioxide. -
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During this time he found carbon dioxide. In 1770 he found things like Nitrous air, diminished nitrous air, nitrous vapor, marine acid air, alkaline air, inflammable air, vitriolic air, fluor acid air, and dephlogisticated air. -
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Discovered Carbon Dioxide because of the curiosity of beer foam. He then discovered Oxygen but didn't realize what he discovered and called it "dephlogiscated air." -
His wife Marie Ann created diagrams for Lavoisier. He spoke with Priestley about his experiment and decided to experiment himself. He was not stuck to the idea of phlogiston and was able to understand Oxygen. He proved that phlogiston did not exist which led to the discovery of 33 simple substances. -
He established an electric current with copper and zinc in salt water creating the first battery -
He left home at 16 years old after his father passed. Davy Found potassium first by using a large self-made battery to split potash. He also discovered other elements such as chlorine, iodine, sodium. He wondered if electricity was an essential property of matter since that was what split the atoms apart. He thought that the negative and positive was the "glue," that held atoms together. Davy passed away in 1829 at age 50.