After reading a textbook by Lavoisier (la-vwa-zee-ay), he decided to become a chemist, but his first experimental work was an attempt to disprove Lavoisier's caloric theory of heat. In the course of his work on gases, he inhaled four quarts of hydrogen and tried to breathe pure carbon dioxide, but he became famous for his experiments with nitrous oxide, which became a recreational drug thanks to his paper on its intoxicating properties. FTP, name this British scientist, who named chlorine, isola
After reading a textbook by Lavoisier (la-vwa-zee-ay), he decided to become a chemist, but his first experimental work was an attempt to disprove Lavoisier's caloric theory of heat. In the course of his work on gases, he inhaled four quarts of hydrogen and tried to breathe pure carbon dioxide, but he became famous for his experiments with nitrous oxide, which became a recreational drug thanks to his paper on its intoxicating properties. FTP, name this British scientist, who named chlorine, isolated sodium and potassium, and invented an arc lamp, but is best known for his discovery of a young assistant whose fame eclipsed his, Michael Faraday.
After reading a textbook by Lavoisier (la-vwa-zee-ay), he decided to become a chemist, but his first experimental work was an attempt to disprove Lavoisier's caloric theory of heat.
Sir Humphrey {Davy}