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When was chlorine discovered?
26/04/2018
In those days, Scheele was not aware of the fact that he had discovered one of the 92 natural elements that would be regrouped - about a century later - by Dmitri Mendeleev in his famous Periodic Table of the Elements.
Wilhelm Scheele was a clever chemical and pharmaceutical scientist. He also discovered the gases oxygen and nitrogen and the metals barium, manganese, molybdenum and tungsten.
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