Priestley
['pri:stli]
Definition
(noun.) English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804).
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Examples
- Priestley applied this process to the analysis of common air, which he discovered to be complex and not simple. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1770 Dr. Priestley published the fact that this rubber had become notable for rubbing out pencil marks, bits of it being sold for a high price for that purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- How did this teaching apply to the atmosphere, which Priestley and others had proved to consist of three or more gases? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dr. Priestley, you tell me, continues his experiments with success. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 1766 Joseph Priestley began his study of airs, or gases. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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