Chemistry Chapter 3 Timeline

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    #1

    Paracelsus cured Frobenius using his alchemical knowledge
  • #2

    Boyle deposited "The Sceptical Chymist" in the vaults of Royal Society in London
  • #3

    German scientist; Johann Becker proposed that fire was caused by Phlogiston, which is described as being an ethereal, odourless, colourless, tasteless, weightless entity
  • #4

    Hennig brand was looking for a way to extract gold from the human body
  • #5

    The element, Phosphorus came before the Royal Society in London then the Chairmanship of Charles II & one of the members decided to investigate it
  • #6

    1700s; Scientists still believed that water was still an element instead of a compound
  • #7

    Mid 1700s; There was 3 known airs which are listed below:
    1) Common Air - The air we breathe
    2) Inflammable Air - Hydrogen
    3) Fixed Air - Carbon Dioxide
  • #8

    Priestley performed an important experiment; he heated mercurit calc & collected the gas that was given off of it & later discovered that the gas was able to relight the embers of the previously lit wooden splint
  • #9

    Priestley went with Lord Shelburne to Paris to dine with the preeminent scientists of the time
  • #10

    Priestley's house in England was targeted by arsonists; He escaped and fled to America
  • #11

    Revolutionaries arrested Lavoisier on grounds on being an enemy of the French people & executed him
  • #12

    The Cornish chemist, Humphry Davy, discovered the element known as Potassium
  • #13

    By the time of Davy's death at age 50, The idea of the elements were established & 55 elements had been discovered
  • #14

    Hydrogen's highly flammability was witnessed when it ignited the Hindenburg Zeppelin Airship which killed 36 people