hydrogen is. that's why it is first
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While the original elements were fire, earth, air and water the term has evolved to mean specific materials with unique attributes formed of one particular atom.
The elements as we know them today were discovered no particular order. THere is no schedule for the discovery. Metals such as gold, silver, lead, copper and iron were among the first as they were found in a pure state in nature and were immediately useful to people. Other elements like sulfur and carbon while not metals are found pure in nature. Even later were elements that needed preparation to separate them from other materials - as an example the gases and reactive metals and non metals. Finally the short lived radioactives and rare gases were identified.
Element number 6, carbon, was known since ancient times and does not have a single discoverer. However, Antoine Lavoisier is often credited with identifying carbon as an element in the late 18th century.
Humphrey Davy
Carbon was not made by anyone. [Categories indicate this as a science question and not a question of faith-based cosmology.] Carbon is the 6th most abundant element in the universe, and it was discovered in pre-historic times, probably at first in its form as charcoal. It was named 'carbon' by Lavoisier in 1789.
Impossible to know: gold or silver, mercury or copper, sulfur or carbon.
The earliest known first use of Carbon is 3750 BC. by the Egyptians and Sumerians but the first true chemical analyses was in 1789 by Antoine Lavoisier as an element.
The first element to be discovered was phosphorus, which was isolated by Hennig Brand in 1669.
The first element to be discovered was phosphorus, which was isolated in 1669 by Hennig Brand.
Carbon was never really discovered. Carbon's discoverer and date of discovery is unknown. Some people believe that it was discovered in 2500 BCE. Carbon was discovered by "accident"
Niobium was discovered first.
In the prehistoric times;impossible to know: gold or silver, mercury or copper, sulfur or carbon.
In the prehistoric times: impossible to know: gold or silver, mercury or copper, sulfur or carbon.
The first element in the periodic table of Mendeleev is hydrogen, not carbon.