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The history is actually quite interesting. I'd like to suggest a book to you. Read The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table by Richard Morris. It gives you the entire history...and explains it better than I ever could within a short response.
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How did Ingenhousz collect a sample of dephlogisticated air?
use your brain
How did Jan ingenhousz collect a sample of dephlogisticated air?
No one knows
What did Joseph priestly find out dephlogisticated air?
it isnt easy its boring
What is the modern word for the gas produced by a plant to make dephlogisticated air?
Oxygen.
What was dephologisticated air?
dephlogisticated air is oxygen gas; - so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time.
What did Joseph Priesley discover in 1744?
Joseph Priestly discovered "oxygen" in 1744. He called it "dephlogisticated air."
What is the man recognized Oxygen and hydrogen?
Joseph Priestley was the man who first discovered oxygen, or as he called it "dephlogisticated air", back in the 18th Century
What is chlorine's original name?
dephlogisticated muriatic acid
What is the history behind Colorado?
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF COLORADO...???
What is the history behind the salary cap in the Major League Baseball?
What is the history behind the salary cap in the MLB?
What is the origin of chlorine?
In 1809 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thénard tried to decompose dephlogisticated muratic acid air by reacting it with charcoal to release the free element muriaticum (and carbon dioxide). They did not succeed and published a report in which they considered the possibility that dephlogisticated muratic acid air is an element, but were not convinced. In 1810, Sir Humphrey Davy tried the same experiment again, and concluded that it was an element, and not a compound. He named this new element as chlorine, from the Greek word χλωρος (chlōros), meaning green-yellow
What is the modern word for gas produced by the plant to make dephlogisticated?
The gas is carbon dioxide.
