Antoine Lavoisier named oxygen and which other gas?
Correct answer: Hydrogen
TestyAlien3443
Naming uranium gas would be akin to Curie naming radium gas: a career/life shortener
TestyAlien3443
phlogiston theory: an actual element of fire, not due to other elemental oxidation
Heecm
Sadly, Lavoisier was beheaded by guillotine in the frenzy of revolution only to be exonerated within a couple of years.
TestyAlien3443
I don't generally think of metals in gaseous state. I think only 2 are liquid at room temperature.
Jabberwocky 💕
Good One 🌟
Dorothy
Oxygen and hydrogen were probably the first gases to be discovered.
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Amazing how much scientific knowledge seemed to excelerate in the 1700s which helped to foster the industrial revolution.
Olly
It's very impressive, the knowledge shown by the Commenters on this question. The Explanation is very interesting too.
Hot chocolate
Yes in the triangle of combustion oxygen plays a key role.