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Oxygen was discovered by two chemists working independently. They were Carl Scheele of Sweden and Joseph Priestley of England. Scheele's laboratory notes show that he prepared oxygen in the early 1770's by heating various compounds, including saltpeter, and mercuric oxide. But Scheele's experiments were not published until 1777. Priestley also published his experiments in 1777. He described how he prepared oxygen by heating mercuric oxide.

Scheele called oxygen "fire air." Priestley called it "dephlogisticated air." In 1777, the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier named the gas oxygen.

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