Chemistry Elements

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  • 1526

    Paracelsus

    Suggested world was made of 3 elements.
    Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury.

  • Robert Boyle

    Examined Phosphorus properties.
    Boyles law.

  • Johann Becker

    Phlogiston Theory

  • Henry Cavendish

    Discovered Hydrogen. He thought it was phlogiston because the gas was odorless, and colorless.

  • Hennig Brand

    Hunt for Gold in the human body. Used urine to try to find Gold.

  • Hennig Brand

    While in search for gold in urine, he discovered a completely different element by accident. Phosphorus.

  • Joseph Priestley

    Found Oxygen

  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Exposed Oxygen. Showed phlogiston didn't exist.
    Defined what an element was.
    Non-metals, metals.

  • Humphry Davy

    Discovered electricity to rip apart potash.
    Discovered Potassium.
    Added 6 elements to Lavoisiers list.

  • Hydrogen

    Lightest element. Highly flammable nature witnessed in airship. Killed 36 people.

  • WWII bombing

    Phosphorus was used in bombs dropped on Hamburg.