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  2. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Prepared and isolated from urine, it was the first element whose discovery date and discoverer are recorded. [53] Its name first appears in print in the work of Georg Kaspar Kirchmayer in 1676. Recognised as an element by Lavoisier. [1] 1 Hydrogen: 1671 R. Boyle: 1671 R. Boyle Robert Boyle produced it by reacting iron filings with dilute acid.

  3. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The timeline begins at the Bronze Age, as it is difficult to give even estimates for the timing of events prior to this, such as of the discovery of counting, natural numbers and arithmetic. To avoid overlap with timeline of historic inventions , the timeline does not list examples of documentation for manufactured substances and devices unless ...

  4. Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals

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    Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817), discovery of uranium (1789), zirconium (1789); establishment of tellurium, strontium, cerium and chromium. Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848), discovery of silicon (1824), selenium (1817), thorium (1858), and cerium (1803, with Klaproth).

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  7. Silicon - Wikipedia

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    Period: period 3: Block ... Silicon is a chemical element; ... developed by American engineer Greenleaf Whittier Pickard in 1906. [37] In 1940, ...

  8. 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.

  9. Outline of the history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of the history of the United States (1930–1949) Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969) Timeline of the history of the United States (1970–1989) Timeline of the history of the United States (1990–2009) Timeline of the history of the United States (2010–present) List of years in the United States