Historical Development of Chemical Elements

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  • 2 BCE

    EARLY HISTORY

    Carbon, Sulfur, Iron, Tin, Lead, Copper, Mercury, Silver, and Gold

  • Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth, and Zinc

  • Cobalt

    discovered by Swedish chemist Georg Brandt

  • Platinum

    Spanish military Leader Don Antonio de Ulloa

  • Nickel

    discovered by Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

  • Hydrogen

    English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish

  • Nitrogen

    Scottish physician and chemist Daniel Rutherford

  • Chlorine, Manganese, and Oxygen

    *Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele
    *Swedish mineralogist Johann Gottlieb Gahn discovers manganese .
    *English chemist Joseph Priestley and Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discover oxygen