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______ was discovered by the Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772.

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The correct answer is

Nitrogen

The correct answer is Option 4, i.eNitrogen.

 Key Points

  • Nitrogen was discovered by the Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford .
  • Rutherford discovered nitrogen by the isolation of the particle in 1772 .
  • Nitrogen is the chemical element with the symbol Nand atomic number 7.
  • The name nitrogen was suggested by French chemist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal in 1790.
  • Nitrogen is the fifth most abundant element in the Universe, it constitutes 78% of Earth's air.
Discoveries
Chemical ElementDiscoverer
OxygenJoseph Priestly.
HydrogenHenry Cavendish.

Selenium

Silicon

Thorium

Jöns Jakob Berzelius.

Sodium

Potassium

Calcium

Barium

Sir Humphrey Davy.
MagnesiumJoseph Black.
ChlorineCarl Wilhelm Scheele.
HeliumPierre Janssen, Norman Lockyer, and Per Teodor Cleve.

Krypton

Neon

Xenon

Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers,
RadiumMarie Curie.
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