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  The middle Alchermist were obsessed with turing base metals, such as lead, into gold. In the end they did not creat any new elements or atoms
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  H.Brand
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  J.Black
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  C.W.Scheele
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  D.Rutherford
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  C.W.Scheele
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  H.Cavendish
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  L.N.Vauquelin
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  H.Davy
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  Lord Rayleigh & W.Ramsay
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  J.L.Gay-Lussac & L.J.Thénard
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  H.Davy
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  J.A.Arfwedson
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  J.J.Berzelius
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  H.C.Ørsted
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  P.Janssen & J.N.Lockyer
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  H.Moissan
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  W.Ramsay & M.W.Travers