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'The Sceptical Chymist'
Robert Boyle publishes 'The Sceptical Chymist' introducing the idea of elements more widely and outlining the argument of their existence -
Henry Cavandish discovers Hydrogen
Henry Cavandish discovers hydrogen leading the way to many more discoveries into elements including the use of hydrogen in rockets -
The first list of elements
Antoine Lavoisier wrote the first list of elements outlining exactly to the world how far research into elements had progressed -
Introduction of atomic sybol's in the form of letters
Jakob Berzelius introduced the use of atomic symbol's in the form of letters -
Modelling the modern periodic table
Dmitri Mendeleev modelled the modern periodic table and used this table to predict accurately other elements that the world had yet to discover. -
Synthesising transuranic elements
Glenn Seaborg synthesised transuranic elements opening up whole new branches of the periodic table that had only ever been theorised.