250th anniversary: British scientist Joseph Priestley (pictured) liberated oxygen gas,...

In 1774, British scientist Joseph Priestley (pictured) liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of the element by the German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

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