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Steve Sorrell's avatar

Scheele discovered oxygen, Joseph Priestly published first, and Antoine Lavoisier named it 😁

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Richard I Gibson's avatar

I'm grateful to Lavoisier, so that we don't have to call it "dephlogisticated air" per Priestly :)

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Steve Sorrell's avatar

And a dephlogisticates class of minerals! 😆

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