What is the story of the discovery of Hydrogen?
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Hydrogen was first produced by Theophratus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541)—also known as Paracelsus—by mixing metals with acids. He was unaware that the explosive gas produced by this chemical reaction was hydrogen. In 1671, Robert Boyle described the reaction between two iron fillings and dilute acids, which results in the production of gaseous hydrogen.[3] In 1766, Henry Cavendish was the first to recognize hydrogen as a discrete substance, by identifying the gas from this reaction as "inflammable" and finding that the gas produces water when burned in air. Cavendish stumbled on hydrogen when experimenting with acids and mercury. Although he wrongly assumed that hydrogen was a compound of mercury—and not of the acid—he was still able to accurately describe several key properties of hydrogen.\n\nAntoine Lavoisier gave the element its name and proved that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. One of the first uses of the element was for balloons. The hydrogen was obtained by mixing sulfuric acid and iron. In 1931, Harold C. Urey discovered deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, by repeated distilling the same sample of water. For this discovery, Urey received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. In the same year, the third isotope, tritium, was discovered. Because of its relatively simple structure, hydrogen has often been used in models of how an atom works.
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it's vital in organisms. hydrogens make up the three most important types of molecules to human beings: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.\n\nthey are trying to develop cars that run on hydrogen fuel.
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The electron as a unit of charge in electrochemistry was posited by G. Johnstone Stoney in 1874, who also coined usage of "electron" in 1894. During the late 1890s a number of physicists posited that electricity could be conceived of as being made of discrete units, which were given a variety of names, but their reality had not been confirmed in a compelling way.\n\nThe discovery that the electron was a subatomic particle was made in 1897 by J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, while he was studying "cathode rays". Influenced by the work of James Clerk Maxwell, and the discovery of the X-ray, he deduced that cathode rays existed and were negatively charged "particles", which he called "corpuscles." He published his discovery in 1897.\n\nThe periodic law states that the chemical properties of elements largely repeat themselves periodically and is the foundation of the periodic table of elements. The law itself was initially explained by the atomic mass of the elements. However, as there were anomalies in the periodic table, efforts were made to find a better explanation for it. In 1913, Henry Moseley introduced the concept of the atomic number and explained the periodic law with the number of protons each element has. In the same year, Niels Bohr showed that electrons are the actual foundation of the table. In 1916, Gilbert Newton Lewis explained the chemical bonding of elements by electronic interactions.
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Water is one of those elements that was here from the start.  Some say it was created by God, some say it was part of some cosmic big bang that started everything.  Either way, it's formed by oxygen and hydrogen forming molecules.  One of oxygen and two of Hydrogen.  You can separate them by putting wires on a flashlight battery and sticking the wires in water.  One wire will generate oxygen bubbles, the other will generate hydrogen bubbles.  With enough hydrogen, you could make your own Hindenburg disaster.
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Rutherford and Bohr did much of the early theoretical work on the structure of the atom but the real breakthrough was in 1938 when the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner and the German chemist Otto Hahn bombarded uranium with neutrons and caused it to splinter into barium and krypton. \n\nShe coined the term "fission" for this process. borrowing a term from biology. When the Nobel Prize was awarded for this joint work over 30 years, after WW2, he was awarded it and she was omitted. Being female and Jewish had caused her career to be eclipsed by his.
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helium \n(He), chemical element, inert gas of Group 0 (noble gases) of the periodic table. The second lightest element (only hydrogen is lighter), helium is a colourless, odourless, and tasteless gas that becomes liquid at -268.9 C (-452 F). Only under increased pressure (approximately 25 atmospheres) does helium solidify.\nHelium was discovered in the gaseous atmosphere surrounding the Sun by the French astronomer Pierre Janssen, who detected a bright yellow line in the spectrum of the solar chromosphere during an eclipse in 1868; this line was initially assumed to represent the element sodium. That same year, the English astronomer Joseph Norman Lockyer observed a yellow line in the solar spectrum that did not correspond to the known D1 and D2 lines of sodium, and so he named it the D3 line. Lockyer concluded that the D3 line was caused by an element in the Sun that was unknown on Earth; he and the chemist Edward Frankland used the Greek word for sun, helios, in naming the element. The British chemist Sir William Ramsay discovered the existence of helium on Earth in 1895. Ramsay obtained a sample of the uranium-bearing mineral cleveite, and upon investigating the gas produced by heating the sample, he found that a unique bright-yellow line in its spectrum matched that of the D3 line observed in the spectrum of the Sun; the new element of helium was thus conclusively identified. In 1903 Ramsay and Frederick Soddy further determined that helium is a product of the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive substances. \n\nHelium constitutes about 23 percent of the mass of the universe and is thus second in abundance to hydrogen in the cosmos. Helium is concentrated in stars, where it is synthesized from hydrogen by nuclear fusion. Although helium occurs in the Earth's atmosphere only to the extent of 1 part in 200,000 (0.0005 percent), and small amounts occur in radioactive minerals, meteoric iron, and mineral springs, great volumes of helium are found as a component (up to 7.6 percent) in natural gases in the United States (especially in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Utah). Smaller supplies have been discovered in Canada and South Africa and in the Sahara Desert.\n\nAlthough there are six known isotopes of helium, only two are stable: helium-3 (symbolized 3He) and helium-4 (symbolized 4He). The four other isotopes are all radioactive, decaying very rapidly into other substances. The helium that is present on Earth is not a primordial component of the Earth but has been generated by radioactive decay. Alpha particles, ejected from the nuclei of heavier radioactive substances, are nuclei of the isotope helium-4. Helium does not accumulate in large quantities in the atmosphere because Earth's gravity is not sufficient to prevent its gradual escape into space. The trace of the isotope helium-3 on Earth is attributable to the negative beta decay of the rare hydrogen-3 isotope (tritium). Helium-4 is by far the most plentiful of the stable isotopes: helium-4 atoms outnumber those of helium-3 about 700,000:1 in atmospheric helium and about 7,000,000:1 in certain helium-bearing minerals.\n\nHelium-4 is unique in having two liquid forms (see Figure A). The normal liquid form is called helium I and exists at temperatures from its boiling point of 4.21 K (-268.9 C) down to about 2.18 K (-271 C). Below 2.18 K, helium-4 undergoes superfluidity (i.e., its viscosity, or resistance to flow, nearly vanishes) and its thermal conductivity becomes more than 1,000 times greater than that of copper. This liquid form is called helium II to distinguish it from normal liquid helium I. By contrast, the less plentiful helium-3 forms three distinguishable liquid phases (see Figure B), of which two are superfluids. Superfluidity in helium-4 was discovered by the Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa in the mid-1930s, and the same phenomenon in helium-3 was first observed by Douglas D. Osheroff, David M. Lee, and Robert C.
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Lithium was discovered in the mineral petalite (LiAl(Si2O5)2) by Johann August Arfvedson in 1817. It was first isolated by William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphrey Davy through the electrolysis of lithium oxide (Li2O). Today, larger amounts of the metal are obtained through the electrolysis of lithium chloride (LiCl). Lithium is not found free in nature and makes up only 0.0007% of the earth's crust.
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The first elements were found before recorded history, so to ask the FIRST one discovered is a question that cannot be answered.
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Around 600 BC Greeks found that by rubbing an 'electron' (a hard Fossilised resin that today is known as Amber) against a fur cloth, it would attract particles of straw. This strange effect remained a mystery for over 2000 years, until, around AD 1600, Dr William Gilbert investigated the reactions of amber and magnets and first recorded the word 'Electric' in a report on the theory of magnetism.
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yes there are many start with hydrogen and then move up the periodic table of ELEMENTS\n\nsorry for the pause ( the boss walked by )
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The discovery of the periodic table was based upon behavior as determined by the skeptical chymist.  A new element meant unique behavior on the part of the element and so the behavior was identified, and the element associated with it.
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Nitrogen (Latin nitrum, Greek Nitron meaning "native soda", "genes", "forming") is formally considered to have been discovered by Daniel Rutherford in 1772 (he was not around in 1172, otherwise he may well have discovered it earlier), who called it noxious air or fixed air.\n\nAlfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, pacifist, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, that he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him.
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Well, rainbows (which are a spectrum) have been known for ages and ages. That crystals will produce rainbows has also been known for ages. Newton was the first person to seriously investigate the properties of light using prisms. The discovery of spectral *lines* was later, but I'm not sure by whom. But it was mostly done by the late 1800's. As a point of interest, Helium was first discovered through the spectrum of sunlight and only later found on earth.
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stated the first version of the Law of conservation of mass, recognized and named oxygen (1778) as well as hydrogen, disproved the phlogiston theory, introduced the Metric system, invented the first periodic table including 33 elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature, not to mention where Mrs. Lavoisier's erogenous zones were.
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Johann Wolfgang!\n\nHe discovered furfural, worked on the use of platinum as a catalyst, and invented a lighter, known as Döbereiner's Lamp.\n\n:)
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Hydrogen has the highest known specific heat of 1.43 x 10^4  J/kg*K at a temperature of 25°C.
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One of the earliest attempts to explain the nature of water was made by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in 335 B.C. when he issued his Theory of Matter. According to Aristotle's theory, every substance was a combination of four basic elements—fire, earth, air and water. This idea was to keep alchemists busy for centuries trying to change common metals into gold by rearranging their "elements." They were not very successful, however, since no one was ever able to break down a substance and find out just how much fire, earth, air and water was in it. Not until the eighteenth century did scientists decide that air, earth and fire were not really elements at all, and in 1781 a British chemist proved that water wasn't an element either.\n\nThat year Joseph Priestley exploded a mixture of air and hydrogen in a bottle as "a mere random experiment to entertain a few philosophical friends," and noted with interest that the explosion caused moisture to condense inside the bottle. He repeated the experiment until he was certain that the moisture was produced from the reaction of air and hydrogen, thereby proving that water, rather than being a basic element, was itself composed of other chemicals.\n\nIn 1783 the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier elaborated on Priestley's experiment and discovered that the hydrogen was not combining with air to form water, but only with the oxygen in air. Further experiments determined that a molecule of water contained two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, a chemical combination which has been given the symbol H2O.\n\nThe discovery that water was H2O or "hydrogen oxide" raised more questions than it answered, for chemists learned that despite its apparent simplicity water is actually a most puzzling and paradoxical substance which seems to defy the rules of chemistry.\n\nCompared to other liquids, water requires a great deal of heat to raise its temperature even a few degrees, and once it is warm it loses its heat slowly. This ability to "store" heat enables water to modify the world's climate. Oceans don't warm up as fast as the coastlines they touch, nor do the)' cool off as fast, with the result that coastal areas usually have milder winters and cooler summers than areas inland. For example, Bismarck, North Dakota has average temperatures of 8 degrees in January and 70 degrees in July, while Seattle, at the same latitude, has averages of 41 degrees and 66 degrees for the same two months.\n\nWater is the only substance found abundantly in all three natural forms—liquid, solid and gas. But in changing from one form to another some more peculiarities become evident. One of water's most paradoxical qualities is that when it changes into a solid it expands (and so becomes relatively lighter for its volume). Other substances, with the exception of bismuth, contract or condense and so become relatively heavier. Of course, if water condensed when it froze the world would have some serious problems. Ice would form on the bottom of a lake because it would be denser and therefore heavier than the liquid water. And there it would stay, growing upwards, killing all marine life. Underneath the surface, shielded from much of the sun's heat, very little of it would melt in the spring and eventually the rivers, lakes and seas in cooler parts of the world would become solid ice.\n\nThe world would have different but even greater temperature problems if there were no water vapor in the air to absorb the sun's heat during the day and retain it during the night. Daylight hours would be miserably hot, and nightfall would bring freezing temperatures. In southern states where winter crops are grown, farmers dread a cold, dry, clear night for this same reason. Without clouds and moist air to act as insulation, the earth's heat quickly escapes, permitting the temperature to drop unusually low and sometimes ruin citrus fruit and tender pl