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-adopted the name Paracelsus
- wasn't afraid to challenge the orthodoxy of the day
-suggested that the world was made in 3 elements, salt,sulfur and mercury ; " core ingredients for making metals and medicines" -
Alchemists began to penetrate substances around them in their bid to turn base metals into gold
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-Studied phosphorus
- wrote the "Skeptical Chemist"
- one of the founders of the royal society
- opened up the scientific method and helped alchemists be considered as chemists -
- a year after the Great Fire of London he suggested that the fire was caused by pholgiston, a substance that was colorless, tasteless, odorless and weightless was caused the fire.
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- discovered hydrogen
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- was looking for a way to extract gold from the body which was urine -instead he discovered the element phosphorus
- he called it "Icy Knock Toluca" -It is used in drugs to promote bone growth in people with osteoporosis
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-Invented the fizzy drink
-discovered oxygen -
-proved that Joseph Priestley's experiment was oxygen not phlogiston
- renamed 33 elements
-first scientist to define an element -
discovered force of electricity to rip apart a caustic chemical called potash and discovered a new element called potassium
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Invented the Bunsen Burner
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Invented the Spectroscope, an instrument made from two telescopes, a wooden box and a prism.
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Bunsen and Kirchhoff discovered these element by using the Spectroscope and Bunsen Burner. Wavelengths were measured for every element which were all different.
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Russian chemistry professor, Dmitri Meneleev created the periodic table
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Mendeleev published an article making predictions about three missing elements based on the properties of their neighbors
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French chemist found a new metal called aluminum
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Two british scientists found a new gas called Argon that didn't seem to fit in the periodic table
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William Ramsay isolated helium after 30 years and also said it had no place in the periodic table
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William Ramsay discovered these three new gases
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Marie made two discoveries. She found that the element thorium could make air a better conductor.That was the real solid indication that this was not unique to uranium this might be a property of matter not curiosity and pitchblende seem to be radioactive
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Marie Curie and Shelton T. Murray announced the discovery of Polonium. Fun fact: the element is named after Marie Curie native country, Poland.
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It was the golden standard of identifying elements in the 1900s
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Marie Curie and her husband successfully isolated one tenth of a gram radium from ten tons of pitchblende residue.
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Marie Curie was rewarded a doctorate in France
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She was rewarded a Nobel Prize in Physics
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She was rewarded a Nobel Prize for chemistry in recognizing radioactivity
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The film "Madame Curie" showed how tirelessly she worked to seperate the radium from the pitchblende residue
