who invented oxygen?

Answer 1

No one invented oxygen.

Oxygen was first described by Michał Sędziwój, a Polish alchemist and philosopher in the late 16th century. Sędziwój thought of the gas given off by warm niter (saltpeter) as "the elixir of life".

Oxygen was more quantitatively discovered by the Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele some time before 1773, but the discovery was not published until after the independent discovery by Joseph Priestley on August 1, 1774, who called the gas dephlogisticated air (see phlogiston theory). Priestley published discoveries in 1775 and Scheele in 1777; consequently Priestley is usually given the credit. Both Scheele and Priestley produced oxygen by heating mercuric oxide.

Scheele called the gas 'fire air' because it was the only known supporter of combustion. It was later called 'vital air' because it was and is vital for the existence of animal life.

The gas was named by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, after Priestley's publication in 1775, from Greek roots meaning "acid-former". As noted, the name reflects the then-common incorrect belief that all acids contain oxygen. This is also the origin of the Japanese name of oxygen "sanso" (san=acid, so=element).

Oxygen was first time condensed in 1883 by professors of Jagiellonian University - Zygmunt Wróblewski (Polish chemist) Karol Olszewski (Polish physicist and chemist).

Answer 2

Date Oxygen Was Discovered

Answer 3

Oxygen was not invented. It was discovered, by Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. He had produced oxygen gas by heating mercuric oxide and various nitrates by about 1772. This is not an invention, because the oxygen had been there all along. Scheele was just the first to find it.

Answer 4

Most stars are made up mosly of hydrogen and helium. When stars begin to burn and get really hot, the hydrogen start fusing together and creating new elements in a process known, convienently enough, as fusion. This process leads to all of our basic elements, carbon, oxygen, lead, etc.

Some scientists have created new elements in the lab that you will find at the tail end of the periodic chart, but most of these are not naturally occuring, at least no here on earth.

So oxygen wasn't really invented, it was created at the dawn of our solar system.

Answer 5

Oxygen was not invented. It is not man made. It was dicovered by Joseph Priestley.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) discovered Oxygen gas on 1 August 1774 in the laboratory at Bowood House, Wiltshire, England; seat of the Marquess of Lansdown.

One of the founding fathers of chemistry stumbled across photosynthesis, is credited with the discovery of oxygen and accidentally brought us soda water. But even with this list of achievements, Joseph Priestly isn't a household name.

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Answer 7

hey,invention can be replaced by Discover. Oxygen is discovered and not invented. If it is invented means for invention the thing needed to human is oxygen only. Not nitrogen or carbondioxide. hey buddy, think before you ask. Have a nice day!..

Answer 8

Oxygen was first described by Michał Sędziwój, a Polish alchemist and philosopher in the late 16th century. Sędziwój thought of the gas given off by warm niter (saltpeter) as "the elixir of life"

Oxygen was more quantitatively discovered by the Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele some time before 1773, but the discovery was not published until after the independent discovery by Joseph Priestley on August 1, 1774, who called the gas dephlogisticated air (see phlogiston theory). Priestley published discoveries in 1775 and Scheele in 1777; consequently Priestley is usually given the credit. Both Scheele and Priestley produced oxygen by heating mercuric oxide.

Scheele called the gas 'fire air' because it was the only known supporter of combustion. It was later called 'vital air' because it was and is vital for the existence of animal life.

The gas was named by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, after Priestley's publication in 1775, from Greek roots meaning "acid-former". As noted, the name reflects the then-common incorrect belief that all acids contain oxygen. This is also the origin of the Japanese name of oxygen "sanso" (san=acid, so=element).

Oxygen was first time condensed in 1883 by professors of Jagiellonian University - Zygmunt Wróblewski (Polish chemist) Karol Olszewski (Polish physicist and chemist).

Answer 9

Joseph Priestley was one of those tinkerers that happened to stumble across some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. That's a picture of him below.

Priestley was born near Leeds in England on March 13, 1733 (you're absolutely correct if you've concluded that he has long passed away). He was raised in a strict Calvinist family. While studying to become a minister, he found that his strong liberal beliefs conflicted with his church's teachings. As as result, in 1767, Priestley became a pastor in a small dissenting church in Leeds.

Note that Priestley had no real interest in the sciences. In fact, he never took a single formal science course during his entire lifetime.

Answer 10

Oxygen was NEVER existed in the atmosphere in the formation of earth. In the beginning, earth was covered in large amount of CO2 and the ocean was free, as it contains Fe(OH)2, what happened is that the first living organism, which are plant cells that lives underwater, started to convert the CO2 in the ocean into O2, but the O2 reacts with Fe(OH)2 in redox reaction, it took a very very very long time (and that's why the earth contains so much Fe). After that, CO2 in the atmosphere dissolve in ocean and that allows the plants to convert them to O2, and then release to the atmosphere (as all metal ions in the ocean has converted to metal).

So the answer should be the green planktons in the very initally stage of earth (long before the dinousour age) that produced oxygen.