The name oxygen was instituted in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier, whose analyses with oxygen disparaged the then-well known phlogiston hypothesis of burning and consumption. Its name gets from the Greek roots ὀξύς oxys, "corrosive", truly "sharp", alluding to the acrid taste of acids and - γενής - qualities, "maker", actually "begetter", on the grounds that at the season of naming, it was erroneously imagined that all acids required oxygen in their arrangement.
History
Early tests
One of the primary known examinations on the connection amongst burning and air was directed by the second century BCE Greek essayist on mechanics, Philo of Byzantium. In his work Pneumatica, Philo saw that modifying a vessel over a consuming flame and encompassing the vessel's neck with water brought about some water ascending into the neck. Philo inaccurately induced that parts of the air in the vessel were changed over into the established component fire and in this way could escape through pores in the glass. Numerous hundreds of years after the fact Leonardo da Vinci based on Philo's work by seeing that a segment of air is expended amid burning and respiration.
In the late seventeenth century, Robert Boyle demonstrated that air is fundamental for ignition. English physicist John Mayow (1641– 1679) refined this work by demonstrating that fire requires just a piece of air that he called spiritus nitroaereus. In one investigation, he found that putting either a mouse or a lit light in a shut holder over water made the water rise and supplant one-fourteenth of the air's volume before dousing the subjects. From this he inferred that nitroaereus is expended in both breath and ignition.
Mayow saw that antimony expanded in weight when warmed, and induced that the nitroaereus probably joined with it. He additionally believed that the lungs isolate nitroaereus from air and pass it into the blood and that creature warmth and muscle development result from the response of nitroaereus with specific substances in the body.Accounts of these and different analyses and thoughts were distributed in 1668 in his work Tractatus pair in the tract "De respiratione"
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