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Question

when was the element carbon discovered and who discovered it??
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Answer 1

in 1858 by Kekule

Answer 2

Carbon was first discovered as charcoal in prehistoric times. The name of the discoverer will probably never be known. The element's name in many languages is derived from the words for charcoal or for coal; the English "carbon" is derived from the Latin name for burnt wood (carbo).
Carbon wasn't recognized as an element until the seventeenth century, after Robert Boyle suggested that an element was a substance that could not be decomposed into simpler substances. Antoine Lavoisier's pioneering chemistry textbook Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, published in Paris in 1789, lists carbon as an "oxidizable and acidifiable nonmetallic element".

The above is directly quoted from the site below.

Answer 3

Carbon was first discovered as charcoal in prehistoric times. The name of the discoverer will probably never be known. The element's name in many languages is derived from the words for charcoal or for coal [1]; the English "carbon" is derived from the Latin name for burnt wood (carbo) [2].
Carbon wasn't recognized as an element until the seventeenth century, after Robert Boyle suggested that an element was a substance that could not be decomposed into simpler substances. Antoine Lavoisier's pioneering chemistry textbook Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, published in Paris in 1789, lists carbon as an "oxidizable and acidifiable nonmetallic element"

Answer 4

Carbon was first discovered as charcoal in prehistoric times. The name of the discoverer will probably never be known. The element's name in many languages is derived from the words for charcoal or for coal [1]; the English "carbon" is derived from the Latin name for burnt wood (carbo) [2].
Carbon wasn't recognized as an element until the seventeenth century, after Robert Boyle suggested that an element was a substance that could not be decomposed into simpler substances. Antoine Lavoisier's pioneering chemistry textbook Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, published in Paris in 1789, lists carbon as an "oxidizable and acidifiable nonmetallic element" [3].

Carbon occurs naturally in several forms. Diamond, graphite, and amorphous carbon have been known throughout written history, but it was not known that they were different forms of the same substance until the late eighteenth century. If alchemists had directed their efforts towards conversion of graphite to diamonds instead of futilely trying to convert lead into gold, the early history of chemistry would have been quite different!

Antoine Lavoisier showed that diamonds are a form of carbon in 1772. He burned carefully weighed diamond and carbon samples and showed that both substances produced no water vapor and the same amount of carbon dioxide gas per gram. Graphite was thought to be a form of lead until 1779, when Carl Wilhelm Scheele showed that graphite produces the same amount of carbon dioxide gas per gram as amorphous carbon does.

A new form of carbon was discovered in 1985 by Harold Kroto (Sussex University), Robert Curl, Jr. (Rice University), and Richard Smalley (Rice University). The new form was called "buckministerfullerene" because its molecules resemble the geodesic domes designed by architect Buckminister Fuller for the 1967 World's fair. "Buckyballs" are being considered in the design of next-generation lubricants, drug delivery systems, industrial catalysts, and nanoscale machinery

Answer 5

The isotope carbon-14 was discovered on February 27, 1940

Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known to the ancients, who manufactured it by burning organic material in insufficient oxygen (making charcoal). Diamonds have long been considered rare and beautiful. One of the last-known allotropes of carbon, fullerenes, were discovered as byproducts of molecular beam experiments in the 1980s.

The name comes from French charbone, which in turn came from Latin carbo, meaning charcoal. In German and Dutch, the names for carbon are Kohlenstoff and koolstof respectively, both literally meaning "coal-stuff".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon#History_and_Etymology

Answer 6

Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known to the ancients, who manufactured it by burning organic material in insufficient oxygen (making charcoal). Diamonds have long been considered rare and beautiful. One of the last-known allotropes of carbon, fullerenes, were discovered as byproducts of molecular beam experiments in the 1980s.

The name comes from French charbone, which in turn came from Latin carbo, meaning charcoal. In German and Dutch, the names for carbon are Kohlenstoff and koolstof respectively, both literally meaning "coal-stuff".

Answer 7

Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known to the ancients, who manufactured it by burning organic material in insufficient oxygen (making charcoal). Diamonds have long been considered rare and beautiful. One of the last-known allotropes of carbon, fullerenes, were discovered as byproducts of molecular beam experiments in the 1980s.

The name comes from French charbone, which in turn came from Latin carbo, meaning charcoal. In German and Dutch, the names for carbon are Kohlenstoff and koolstof respectively, both literally meaning "coal-stuff".

Answer 8

lol... looks like everyone wants the points...
anw...
Date of Discovery: Known to the ancients [who manufactured it by burning organic material in insufficient oxygen (making charcoal)]
Discoverer: Unknown (but it was discovered in prehistory)
Name Origin: From the Latin carbo (coal)
Obtained From: burning with insufficient oxygen

hmm... and there are other types of carbon as well...
One of the last-known allotropes of carbon, fullerenes, were discovered as byproducts of molecular beam experiments in the 1980s.
also remember... diamond has been cansidered rare and beautiful for a LONG time... they became more famous only during the 1300s
=)

Answer 9

Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known to the ancients

Answer 10

A.L. Lavoisier proposed carbon in 1789 from the Latin carbo meaning "charcoal."

Answer 11

Carbon was discovered in prehistory

(don't forget your source, man)

so, you'll have to forgive us if we can't pronouce the name of the man who discovered it ;-)