discovery of oxygen experiment

Two scientists, Carl Scheele of Sweden and Joseph Priestly of England working independently, discovered oxygen. They published their discovery in 1777. Scheele obtained oxygen by heating potassium nitrate and mercuric oxide and called it "Fire Air". Priestley cal..

Two scientists, Carl Scheele of Sweden and Joseph Priestly of England working independently, discovered oxygen. They published their discovery in 1777. Scheele obtained oxygen by heating potassium nitrate and mercuric oxide and called it "Fire Air". Priestley called i..

The Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele first prepared chlorine in 1770 by treating hot concentrated hydrochloric acid with manganese dioxide. Unfortunately, he thought that it was an oxygen containing compound and did not recognize it as an element. After more than 30 years, th..

Take distilled water in a trough. Boiled and cooled water can also be taken since it does not contain dissolved air. Invert a gas jar filled with oxygen, over it, as shown in the figure (Fig.13.9). After some time, the level of the water rises inside the gas jar indicating that the water..

Take a germinating bean seed with the radicle about 2 cm in length. Dry the seedling with the help of filter paper and mark the root at 2 mm intervals from tip upwards with water proof ink. Place the seedling on moist filter paper in a petridish for 24 hours. Observe the ink mar..

In its simplest form, it consists of a cylindrical glass tube about 50 cms long, closed at both ends called the discharge tube (or Crookes tube). The tube is fitted with two metallic electrodes, which are connected to a source of high voltage. It is filled with gas and the discharge tube is connec..

Discovery of Radioactivity and Nature of Radiations - In 1896, the phenomenon of radioactivity was accidentally discovered by French scientist Henri Becquerel. He was performing experiments with uranium compounds. He accidentally placed a crystal of potassium uranyl sulphate ove..

Although Rutherford's model was enormously successful at explaining the scattering of alpha particles, there was a problem when the experimental data were used to calculate the mass of the nucleus. From the results of the scattering experiments, it was possible to calculate the char..

Production of cathode rays - In 1885, Sir William Crookes carried out a series of investigations into the behaviour of metals heated in a vacuum. The experiment of Crookes and others showed that a heated cathode produced a stream of radiation, which could cause gases at low pressure to gl..

The history of the discovery of cells dates back to the 17 t h century and is closely associated with the history of the invention of microscopes. An Italian microscopist Marcello Malpighi studied the structure of some plants and proposed the idea that plants are composed of tiny structur..