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Period: Sep 30, 1543 to
The Scientific Revolution
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The start to Chemistry
Practical attempts to improve the refining of ores and their extraction to smelt metals was an important source of information for early chemists in the 16th century. Identified an impurity in copper ore as a separate metallic element, which he named nickel -
Electrical currents
Volta demonstrated in 1794 that when two metals and brine-soaked cloth or cardboard are arranged in a circuit they produce an electric current. -
Dalton"s law
In 1803, English meteorologist and chemist John Dalton proposed Dalton's law, which describes relationship between the components in a mixture of gases and the relative pressure each contributes to that of the overall mixture. -
potassium
Potassium, the first metal that was isolated by electrolysis, was discovered in 1807 by Davy -
chemistry after 2030
Chemistry is still a factor in science, scientiest use chemistry to try and learn new things that no one has yet to discover.
