ìDiscoveryî of oxygen, contíd

• 1777 - Scheele publishes book ìFire and Air.î

  • Hypothesizes oxygen as a distinct and separable component of air

• 1779 - Lavoisier proposes the name oxygen

  • part of air that is respirable
  • responsible for combustion

• Early 1800ís - John Dalton incorporates oxygen into atomic theory

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