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Who coined the name oxygen

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Answered by itzlalitha
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Antoine Lavoisier is the one who coined the name oxygen

Answered by krishna210398
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Antoine Lavoisier

Explanation:

The call oxygen became coined in 1777 through Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier.

In 1775-1780, he interpreted the numerous roles of oxygen in combustion and respiration, which have been well-known as much as that time. Among them became the colorless and particularly reactive fueloline he called "dephlogisticated air," to which the extraordinary French chemist Antoine Lavoisier could quickly provide the call "oxygen."Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci counseled that the air we breathe carries some thing important to life, having observed that combustion appeared to get rid of it from air, inflicting animals to suffocate.

Many medieval alchemists attempted to discover it, with out success. Then in 1774, the English chemist Joseph Priestley succeeded in each isolating out the substance, and displaying it became a unmarried chemical element, in preference to a few unique blend of gases. Priestley became additionally the primary to put up his findings and for this reason permit others to affirm his discovery – a manner which remains seemed as important in claiming precedence in discovery disputes.

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