Oxygen
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and its compounds play a key role in many of the important processes of
life and industry. in the biosphere is essential in the processes of
respiration and metabolism, the means by which animals derive the energy needed
to sustain life. Furthermore, is the most abundant element at the surface
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.... his most significant
experimental work, and Carl Wilhelm SCHEELE (1742-86), a Swedish pharmacist and
chemist. It is generally believed that Scheele was the first to isolate oxygen,
but that Priestley, who independently achieved the isolation of oxygen somewhat
later, was the first to publicly announce his findings. The interpretation of
the findings of Priestley and the resultant clarification of the nature of
oxygen as an element was accomplished by the French scientist Antoine-Laurent
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