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it as "fire air" and the latter "dephlogisticated air", both assuming that what they had found was the substance that combined with phlogiston during combustion. this gas, of course, was oxygen, and priestley is typically given credit 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...
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