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it ia a alchemical substance said to beable to turn regular metals like lead into gold
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Primarily a product of the post-Exilic period
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a legendary potion, or drink, that grants the drinker eternal life
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publishes The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, which contains a description of what is now known as the scientific method
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considerded the first modern chemist
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this is a 17th century attempt to explain oxidization. (fire and rust)
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a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air"
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a chemist who named oxygen and hydrogen
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isolates carbon dioxide and calls it "fixed air"
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He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory
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He is most noted for his contributions to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law
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creates the first chemical battery, founding the discipline of electrochemistry
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Discovers that water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen
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Creates the concept of absolute zero, the temperature that all molecular motion stops
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creates methods of petroleum cracking, which makes the entire modern petrochemical industry possible
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He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes
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exhibits Parkesine, one of the first synthetic polymers
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makes on of the first versions of the periodic table, with 28 elements
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publishes the first modern periodic table with 66 elements
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he discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element to another
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creates the ion theory to explain conductivity in electrolytes
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discovers the noble gases, filling a gap in the periodic table
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this substance is what many chemists used to find elements such as uranium, polonium and radium.
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discovers the electron using the cathode ray tube
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makes one of the first nuclear models of the atom, where electrons orbit the nucleus
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invents the pH concept and makes methods for measuring acidity
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depicts the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus
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He was the primary British scientist who collaborated in the Manhattan Project during World War II
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is the smallest fullerene molecule containing pentagonal and hexagonal rings in which no two pentagons share an edge
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the period after the stone age but before the iron age. it this period there was no ability to smelt.