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  2. Hennig Brand - Wikipedia

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    Brand kept his discovery secret, as alchemists of the time did, and worked with the phosphorus trying unsuccessfully to use it to produce gold. His recipe was: [5] Let urine stand for days until it gives off a pungent smell. [4] (This step was not necessary, as later scientists discovered that fresh urine yielded the same amount of phosphorus). [6]

  3. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    [169] [170] Hafnium was the last stable element to be discovered (noting however the difficulties regarding the discovery of rhenium). 43 Technetium: 1937 C. Perrier and E. Segrè: 1947 S. Fried [171] The two discovered a new element in a molybdenum sample that was used in a cyclotron, the first element to be discovered by synthesis. It had ...

  4. GOLD - Wikipedia

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    Gold, a chemical element; Genomes OnLine Database; Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity; GOLD (parser), an open-source parser-generator of BNF-based grammars; Graduates of the Last Decade, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers program to garner more university level student members

  5. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Named in honour of Glenn T. Seaborg, who discovered the chemistry of the transuranium elements, shared in the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed and proposed the actinide series. · Former names: eka-tungsten, [21] unnilhexium (Unh, '106'): temporary systematic name and symbol. [61] [22] Bohrium (Bh) 107 Bohr, Niels: eponym

  6. Metals of antiquity - Wikipedia

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    It was recognised as an element by Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and Fourcroy in 1787. [6] The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [13] Silver is estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold. [14] There is evidence that iron was known from before 5000 BC. [15]

  7. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

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  9. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The earliest gold metallurgy is known from the Varna culture in Bulgaria, dating from c. 4600 BC. [6] ... investigating the elements discovered by its means.