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Antoine Lavoisier is known as "father of modern chemistry”. How did he die?
He committed suicide
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He died of carbon oxide poisoning
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He died in an explosion
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He was guillotined.
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Lavoisier was a powerful member of a number of aristocratic councils, and an administrator of the Ferme générale - a hated tax agency. At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco, and sentenced to death.
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Which chemical element was discovered in Russia?
titanium
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boron
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ruthenium
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magnesium
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Ruthenium was discovered in 1844 by the Baltic German scientist Karl Ernst Claus at the Kazan State University. He named it after Ruthenia, the Latin word for Rus.
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Where was scandium chemical element discovered?
in France
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in Russia
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in Germany
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in Sweden
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Scandium was discovered in 1879 by Lars Fredrik Nilson at the Uppsala University. He named it from the Latin word Scandia meaning "Scandinavia"
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Sweden questions
What gave the name to the indium chemical element?
country of India
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city of Indianapolis
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Indigo dye
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its chemical indifference
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In 1863, the German chemists Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Theodor Richter found a blue line in the spectrum of tested minerals. As no element was known with a bright blue emission, they concluded a new element was present, and they named it from the indigo color in its spectrum.
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