-
because his work was
published first. Priestley, however,
called oxygen "
dephlogisticated air", and did not
recognize it as a
chemical element. The name oxygen...
- Conversely, when
Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen, he
believed it to be
dephlogisticated air,
capable of
combining with more
phlogiston and thus supporting...
- yellow-green colour, and the
smell similar to aqua regia. He
called it "
dephlogisticated muriatic acid air"
since it is a gas (then
called "airs") and it came...
- inflammation, and ...
every other use of
common air". He
called the air
dephlogisticated air, as he
thought it was
common air
deprived of its phlogiston. Since...
- the gas must be 'without phlogiston' – this led
Priestley to name it
dephlogisticated air. In
October 1775
Priestley accompanied Lord
Shelburne on a trip...
- (ammonia, NH3); "diminished" or "
dephlogisticated nitrous air" (nitrous oxide, N2O); and, most famously, "
dephlogisticated air" (oxygen, O2) as well as experimental...
-
English natural philosopher and
chemist Joseph Priestley who
called it
dephlogisticated nitrous air (see
phlogiston theory) or
inflammable nitrous air. Priestley...
- air" (ammonia, NH3), "diminished" or "
dephlogisticated nitrous air" (nitrous oxide, N2O), and "
dephlogisticated air" (oxygen, O2).
Priestley also developed...
-
published a
paper on the
production of pure
water by
burning hydrogen in "
dephlogisticated air" (air in the
process of combustion, now
known to be oxygen). Cavendish...
- Wiltshire, England,
isolates oxygen in the form of a gas,
which he
calls "
dephlogisticated air".
Antoine Lavoisier publishes his
first book, a
literature review...
