Chemistry - A Volatile History

"Cold Night Light" - burned bright like fire but it was cold as ice

• "Icy Nocta Luca"
• Gold
• antoine lavoisier
• Robert Boyle
• Pluto

Wrote "The Sceptical Chymist"

• Robert Boyle
• Henry Cavendish
• Johann Becher
• Antoine Lavoisier

Discovered hydrogen

• Robert Boyle
• Henry Cavendish
• Paracelsus
• Antoine Lavoisier

"Quicksilver"; only metal that's liquid at room temperature; "mad as a hatter"

• Gold
• Mercury
• Hydrogen
• Phosphorus

Convinced that the whole world was just made up of earth, fire, and water; based their concept of elements on what was visible around them

• Robert Boyle
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Ancient Greeks
• Alchemists

Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim

• Paraclesus
• Robert Boyle
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Johann Becher

Father of Chemistry; claimed that he was the one who discovered Oxygen because he was the one who recognized it as an element;

• Paraclesus
• Robert Boyle
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Johann Becher

Used in drugs to promote bone growth and treats diseases; ingredient used in toothpaste

• Gold
• Mercury
• Phlogiston
• Phosphorus

A substance that scientists once thought explained why things burn; it has since been proved that it does not exist

• element
• Phlogiston
• Mercury
• Alchemists

Third most abundant element in the universe

• Oxygen
• Mercury
• Hydrogen
• Phosphorus