Question

collect information about the experiments of joseph priestiy. write a report describing priestly's experiments proving that oxygen is needed for burning.​

Answer 1

In the course of these experiments, Priestley made an enormously important observation. ... Priestley called his discovery "dephlogisticated air" on the theory that it supported combustion so well because it had no phlogiston in it, and hence could absorb the maximum amount during burning.

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