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    Oxygen is essential for all living things and makes up about 90% of water and 46% of the earth's crust. It is odorless, colorless, and tasteless in its free state. Two-thirds of the human body is composed of oxygen, which is taken in through the lungs and distributed through the bloodstream to cells where it provides energy. While Joseph Priestley is often credited with discovering oxygen in 1774, Carl Wilhelm Scheele had actually isolated oxygen in about 1771 but published after Priestley. Antoine Lavoisier later conducted his own experiments and named the element "oxygen" in around 1779 based on the incorrect belief that it was part of forming acids.

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    Oxygen is essential for all living things and makes up about 90% of water and 46% of the earth's crust. It is odorless, colorless, and tasteless in its free state. Two-thirds of the human body is composed of oxygen, which is taken in through the lungs and distributed through the bloodstream to cells where it provides energy. While Joseph Priestley is often credited with discovering oxygen in 1774, Carl Wilhelm Scheele had actually isolated oxygen in about 1771 but published after Priestley. Antoine Lavoisier later conducted his own experiments and named the element "oxygen" in around 1779 based on the incorrect belief that it was part of forming acids.

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    Oxygen is essential for all living things and makes up about 90% of water and 46% of the earth's crust. It is odorless, colorless, and tasteless in its free state. Two-thirds of the human body is composed of oxygen, which is taken in through the lungs and distributed through the bloodstream to cells where it provides energy. While Joseph Priestley is often credited with discovering oxygen in 1774, Carl Wilhelm Scheele had actually isolated oxygen in about 1771 but published after Priestley. Antoine Lavoisier later conducted his own experiments and named the element "oxygen" in around 1779 based on the incorrect belief that it was part of forming acids.

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    OXYGEN

    Background
    Oxygen (atomic number, 8; atomic weight, 16) is essential for all living things and
    has the ability to combine with almost all other elements. When elements fuse with
    oxygen, they are labeled as being oxidized. Oxygen is the most plentiful element in
    the world, comprising about 90% of water (hydrogen makes up the other 10%) and
    46% of the earth's crust (silicon, 28%; aluminum, 8%; and iron, 5%; among others).
    Oxygen's melting point is 360F (218C) and its boiling point is 297F (183C).
    In its free state, oxygen is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. At temperatures below
    297F (183C) oxygen takes on a pale blue liquid form.
    Two-thirds of the human body is composed of oxygen. In humans oxygen is taken in
    through the lungs and distributed via the blood stream to cells. In the cells, oxygen
    combines with other chemicals, making them oxidized. The oxidized cells are then
    distributed where they are needed, providing the body with energy. The waste
    products of respiration are water and carbon dioxide, which are removed through the
    lungs.
    Pressurized oxygen therapy is used to treat numerous medical aliments such as
    emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia. This medicinal form of oxygen is typically kept
    in medium-sized aluminum canisters equipped with pressure regulators and release
    valves. Large amounts of oxygen are kept in large, insulated steel tanks pressurized
    at 2,000 lb/in 2 (141 kg/cm 2 ).

    History
    The discovery of oxygen has generally been attributed to Joseph Priestley, an
    English chemist. In 1767, Priestly believed that air mixed with carbon was able to
    produce electricity. He called this carbonized air, mephitic air. Priestly went on to
    conduct experiments concerning air, and in 1774 he used a burning glass and solar
    heat to heat mercuric oxide. While doing this, he noticed that the mercuric oxide
    broke down under the extreme temperature and formed beads of elemental mercury.
    The mercuric oxide also emitted a strange gas that facilitated flames and opened the
    respiratory tract, making it easier to breath when inhaled. This gas was named
    dephlogisticated air by Priestley, based on the popular thought of the time that
    phlogiston was needed for material to burn. The phlogiston theory was deemed false
    by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, a French chemist.
    Lavoisier had been conducting his own experiments with combustion and air in the
    mid- to late-eighteenth century. It was in 1774, that he met Priestley who told
    Lavoisier of the discovery of dephlogisticated air. Lavoisier began to conduct his own
    experiments on Priestley's pure form of air. He observed that the element was part of
    several acids and made the assumption that it was needed to form all acids. Based
    on this incorrect thought, Lavoisier used the Greek words oxy (acid)
    and gene (forming) to coin the French word oxygenetranslated to oxygen in
    Englishsometime around 1779.
    Read more: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Oxygen-
    Tank.html#ixzz50Sgc0ETOThere is yet a third man who is credited for his involvement in
    the discovery of oxygen in about 1771. Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish pharmacist and
    chemist, discovered that a certain element (Scheele also thought it to be phlogiston) was
    needed in order for substances to burn. Scheele called this element "fire air" due to it being
    needed for combustion. During these experiments with fire air, Scheele also discovered "foul
    air," now known as nitrogen. Despite the fact that Scheele had isolated oxygen before
    Priestley, Priestley published his findings first.

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