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August 1, 1774
Joseph Priestley's isolation of oxygen on August 1, 1774
On a summer afternoon in 1774, a self-taught minister aimed a burning glass at a pinch of red powder and captured the gas that keeps us all alive. He never understood what he had done, and two rival chemists were about to claim the credit.
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