Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.
Engraving on the title page of Scheele's Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire (1777)(d. Königl. Schwed. Acad. d. Wissenschaft Mitgliedes, Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer)
Pyrolusite, or MnO2
Chlorine gas
Statue of Scheele in Köping, Sweden
Chlorine
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Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
…discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified the elements molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids…
Chlorine in bottle
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, discoverer of chlorine
Solid chlorine at −150 °C
Chlorine, liquefied under a pressure of 7.4 bar at room temperature, displayed in a quartz ampule embedded in acrylic glass