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He was the Swedish chemist and pharmacist
who discovered oxygen
(independently with Priestley),
tungsten (tungstic
acid), barium (baria),
molybdenum
(by proving it was distinct from graphite),
and chlorine.
The mineral scheelite (CaWO4) is named
after him. In spite of his far-reaching discoveries, he was a phlogistonist
to the end, and even considered his chlorine as being “dephlogisticated
muriatic acid.”
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