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330
Aristotle and the Four element theory.
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water -
360
Plato comes up with the term 'elements'
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400
Democritus proposes the atom
400 BC -
Joseph Black isolated Carbon Dioxide.
"fixed air." -
Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestly isolated oxygen
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Antoine Lavoisier wrote the first list of elements
33 elements & seoerated metals and non-metals -
John Dalton proposed "Dalton's Law"
describes the relationships between the components in a mixture of gases. -
Jakob Berzelius developed atomic weights & letters to represent elements
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Lothar Meyer develops one of the first versions of the periodic table
28 elements organized by valence -
Dmitri Mendeleev developed a table based on atomic weights
ordered 'periodically' with elements that have similar properties under each other. That Periodic Table included the 66 known elements organized by atomic weights. -
William Ramsay discovered Noble Gases.
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Ernest Rutherford discovered the cause of radioactivity and decaying of atoms
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Henry Moseley developed periodic law
atomic number of each of the elements