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for its discovery; though scheele isolated his "fire air" first, in , priestley was first to publish his method of synthesis, which he did in . it took a third chemist, antoine lavoisier, to recognize that the newly discovered gas was in fact a new element; he published the first correct explanation
of combustion in . though correct in his dismissal of phlogiston, lavoisier developed his own mistaken theory stating that all acids contained this new element, and therefore named the element from the greek roots oxys, acid, and genes, producer. by the time this belief was proven incorrect, the name...
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