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  2. Antoine Lavoisier - Wikipedia

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    Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/ l ə ˈ v w ɑː z i eɪ / lə-VWAH-zee-ay; [1] [2] [3] French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), [4] also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

  3. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    In 1783, José and Fausto Elhuyar found an acid made from wolframite that was identical to tungstic acid. Later that year, in Spain, the brothers succeeded in isolating the metal now known as tungsten by reduction of this acid with charcoal, and they are credited with the discovery of the element. [59] [60]

  4. Marguerite Perey - Wikipedia

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    [3] [7] Francium is the second rarest element (after astatine) - only about 550g exists in the entire Earth's crust - and it was the last element to be discovered in nature. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] (Five elements that were discovered synthetically were later found to exist in nature: technetium , promethium , astatine , neptunium , and plutonium .)

  5. Timeline of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.

  6. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.

  7. Science in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Lavoisier subsequently discovered and named oxygen, described its role in animal respiration [89] and the calcination of metals exposed to air (1774–1778). In 1783, Lavoisier found that water was a compound of oxygen and hydrogen. [90] Lavoisier's years of experimentation formed a body of work that contested phlogiston theory.

  8. Joseph Proust - Wikipedia

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    Joseph-Louis Proust was born on 26 September 1754 in Angers, France. His father served as an apothecary in Angers. Joseph studied chemistry in his father's shop and later went to Paris where he gained the appointment of apothecary in chief to the Salpêtrière. [2] He also taught chemistry with Pilâtre de Rozier, a famous aeronaut. [2]

  9. Francium - Wikipedia

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    Francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey [4] in France (from which the element takes its name) on January 7, 1939. [5] Before its discovery, francium was referred to as eka-caesium or ekacaesium because of its conjectured existence below caesium in the periodic table. It was the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis.