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Timeline of Chemistry

Democritus in 460 BC was the first to discover that everything is made of atoms. Joseph Priestly made important discoveries in the late 18th century including oxygen, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide. Alessandro Volta invented batteries in the early 19th century by stacking layers of silver and zinc separated by paper soaked in brine.

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Timeline of Chemistry

Democritus in 460 BC was the first to discover that everything is made of atoms. Joseph Priestly made important discoveries in the late 18th century including oxygen, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide. Alessandro Volta invented batteries in the early 19th century by stacking layers of silver and zinc separated by paper soaked in brine.

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TIMELINE OF CHEMISTRY

Democritus (460 BC) Joseph Priestly (1733 – 1804) Alessandro Volta (1745 -1822)

Was the first Made the Invented Batteries


to discover discovery of by stacking
that everything oxygen, carbon advertising layer
is made of monoxide and of silver and zinc
atoms. nitrous oxide. Separated by paper
soaked and bring
TIMELINE OF CHEMISTRY

Democritus (460 BC) Joseph Priestly (1733 – 1804) Alessandro Volta (1745 –
1822)

Was the first to Made the discovery Invented batteries


discover that of oxygen, carbon by stacking advertising
everything is made monoxide and layer of silver and zinc
of atoms. nitrous oxide. separated by paper
soaked and brine.

Amedeo Avogadro (1776 – 1856) Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1894 – 1907)

Discovered that equal volume Formed the periodic table and


of gasses contain the same discovered periodicity of
number of molecules. The elements.
Robert Boyle (1637 – 1691) Antoine Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) John Dalton (1766 – 1844)

Discovered the relation He is known as the He was the first great


Between volume and Father of chemistry chemical theorist. He
pressure and was the discovered nitrogen made the atomic theory
first to find out that and studied acids and stated the law of the
small particles forms and many organics pressure of gasses.
molecules. compounds.

Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) Henry Moseley (1887 – 1915)

First to find that bacteria Discovered the relation


can be seen an infective between the frequency
disease causing agents of x-ray of an elements
and discovered and its atomic number
pansexualization of milk proving the periodic table.

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