Some unknown prehistoric person observing a fire ignited by lightning. The first understanding of the chemical nature of combustion, however, was in historic times and has been credited to Lavoisier, Priestly, and/or Scheele.
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Henry Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774 while conducting experiments with a substance known as mercuric oxide. This discovery laid the foundation for the understanding of the role of oxygen in combustion and respiration.
Julius Ascutia Gardiola
Who discovered the automobile? The automobile wasn't discovered under a rock. The automobile was invented. Karl Friedrich Benz is generally regarded as the inventor of the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine.
Priestly discovered Oxygen which a major element in combustion or burning
Karl Benz, a German, is generally credited with making the first real car powered by an internal combustion engine, in 1886.
Newly discovered elements, those odd trans-uranium metals that inhabit the extreme upper end of the periodic table, are notproducts of combustion. Combustion is, in general, a chemical process. Only a nuclear process of some kind can create these ultra-heavy elements. We know that the elements up through uranium are created in stars (with the trans-iron elements created in supernovae). The heaviest elements, those that are most recelty discovered, were created by man.We use some kind of nuclear accelerator (like a cyclotron, for example) to launch particles or heavy nuclei at samples of the heaviest elements. This can result in having those target nuclei capture the particles or heavy ions and change into a yet heavier element. Additionally, continuous bombardment produces heavier still nuclei (along with a good bit of radiation).
Nitrogen was first discovered by Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772 through experiments involving the removal of oxygen and carbon dioxide from air. He named the gas nitrogen because it was found to be the part of air that does not support combustion or life.