the name oxygen was coined by
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Antoine- Laurent
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In 1775–80, French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, with remarkable insight, interpreted the role of oxygen in respiration as well as combustion, discarding the phlogiston theory, which had been accepted up to that time; he noted its tendency to form acids by combining with many different substances and accordingly
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The term 'oxygen' was termed by the famous chemist, Antoine Lavoisier.
- In the year 1777, the chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier first came up with the term 'oxygen'.
- After that, he derived and successfully conducted experiments to prove several properties of the oxygen gas.
- Among the properties of the oxygen gas, some of the major discoveries were the properties of respiration, the process of combustion of oxygen gas, etc.
- These properties were proved successfully later by different scientists to bring about more clarity to the understanding of the element Oxygen.
Hence, the correct answer will be, that Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was the chemist who coined the term 'oxygen'.
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