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1536
Paracelsus
was an alchemist
he suggested that the main ingredients to make medicine were salt, sulfur, and quick silver or mercury. -
Johann Joachim Becher
said that fire reduced stuff to its purest form and that fire was produced by Phlogiston.
Phlogiston was a colorless, odorless, weightless substance. -
Hennig Brand
was an alchemist that tried to extract gold from piss but instead discovered Phosphorus. he discovered that it was flammable and created a bright light source and named it "cold night light"
It was used in the bombs that blew Hamburg up in WWII. -
Robert Boyle
decided he wanted to learn more about phosphorus and investigate its properties. found that sulfur and phosphate together created fire,,, this was used to create the matches. Was the first chemist. -
Joseph Priestley
spent a lot of time inside a beer brewery because he was curious about a type of gas he dubbed brewery gas/fixed air. he became aware of this when he put a lit match against one of the brewers and it went out. he had discovered oxygen and called it dephlogisticated air,,, HE INVENTED THE FIRST FIZZY DRINK!!! he also became the first salaried, professional, chemist. -
Antione Lavoisier
exposed the truth about Phlogiston(heck yeah!!) and called the air Priestley discovered, Oxygen. He took all credit for it (booo) He also named "hydrogen" as well. -
Henry Cavendish
added Zinc to acid and collected the gas it let off. put a match to it and noted it was flammable. he thought he had discovered the famous phlogiston but in reality, he discovered hydrogen. -
Humphry Davy
split potash (which everyone believed to be an element) and discovered potassium. He also discovered 6 other elements!! (Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, Boron, Barium, Strontium)