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Why Do We Discover Oxygen

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Oxygen
Halle Bratvold
December 15th 2017
Physical Science Period 3

Abstract There are many debates on which element is the most important for this planet, but oxygen is definitely one of the most necessary for life to survive. In order for humans, animals, and anything living to survive, they must have oxygen. Oxygen is produced by a process called photosynthesis, which is when plants produce glucose and oxygen by using carbon dioxide. Oxygen also makes up about 21% of our entire atmosphere. All in all, oxygen can do many things, good, bad and otherwise. But no matter what, it is still one of the most essential elements needed for earth to survive.

Introduction Many people underestimate how important oxygen actually is. They don’t realize that their entire survival relies on one element in more ways than one.
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Who Discovered It
Oxygen was discovered by two different people on two separate occasions in the same year of 1774. The men who discovered it were Joseph Priestly and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Joseph Priestly was born in 1733 in Wiltshire, England. He was a very smart young child, learning six languages before he reached high school. He also had a very large passion for chemistry. After he discovered oxygen, he used his discoveries to invent carbonated water. Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born in 1733 in Uppsala, Sweden. When he was 22 years old, he got a job at a pharmacy, and that spiked his interest in chemistry, which led him to

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