who found the element carbon?
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The same guy that found fire...or maybe just the ashes.
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GENERAL INFORMATION\n* Atomic Symbol-Si\n* Atomic Number-14\n* Atomic Mass-28.0855\n* Group name-Carbon family\n\nHISTORY\n* discovered in 1824\n* discovered by Jöns Jacob Berzelius\n* found in the earth's crust\n\nPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS\n* melting point-1687K\n* sate of matter-solid\n* color-dark grey, bluish tinge\n* density-2330kg/m\n\nCHEMICAL PROPERTIES\n* ionization energy-8.152 eV\n* electronegativy-1.90 (pauling scale)\n* boiling point-3538K\n* relatively inert\n\nUSES\n* semi-conductors\n* glass\n* concrete\n* brick\n* pottery\n* cosmetics\n* computers\n* medical equipment\n* biological uses\n\nTOXICITY\n* can be combustible\n* explosive when in contact with halogen oxidants\n* inhalation causes coughing\n* contact with skin or eyes can cause redness\n\nINTERESTING ASPECTS OF SILICON\n* 2nd most abundant element in the earth's crust\n* Silicon Valley, CA is named after the element because of its use in technology\n* present in the sun and stars\n* In Latin, Silex meaning flint
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The chemical element with the highest melting point is carbon, (4300–4700 K) (4027–4427 °C,7280–8000 °F).
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Discovered by: Sir Humphrey Davy, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, L.J. Th&„nard \n\nDiscovered at: England, France \n\nBoron compounds have been known for thousands of years, but the element was not isolated until 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) and Louis Jaques Thénard (1777-1857). This was accomplished through the reaction of boric acid (H3BO3) with potassium.
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Here is the basic information including some alchemy (second two references).  Carbon is so old in human time that its history will never really be known.
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He was a chemist who discovered guncotton and ozone.  I'm sure Wiki would have an entry on him, and maybe some actual refrences
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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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The process in which helium fuses into carbon was the first thing that came up in my google search.  But, this is one area that completely greek to me, and I tried to read around and there doesn't seem to be an answer for this question.  Majority of the theories I read just agree on this:\n\nBig Bang Conditions - Evolution\nInteraction of the Standard Galactic Cosmic Rays with interstellar medium, supernova spallation and a low energy component related to supernova explosions in galactic superbubbles are all necessary... (origin and production).\n\nIt's still greek to me and I don't know of it's relevance to Helium and Carbon.\n\nIt's a mystery I guess, there are hundreds of theories but none of them are the answer to your question.  This is very interesting!  Well good luck!
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Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
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He discovered that atoms are not indivisible and are actually made up of smaller particles, electrons. When he first discovered electrons, he formed three hypotheses:\n\n1. Cathode rays are charged particles (which he called "corpuscles"). \n2. These corpuscles are constituents of the atom. \n3. These corpuscles are the only constituents of the atom. \n\nThere were minor changes made to his first and second hypotheses, but the third was completely wrong.\n\nNOTE: The table of contents to the first link is on the bottom left of the page.
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a compound contaning carbon
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Wolfgang Pauli was the first to propose it in 1930, but Enrico Fermi named it.\nIn 1932 James Chadwick discovers the neutron.\n But it wasn't until 1956 that Reines and Cowan actually discovered neutrino reactions in their atomic experiments.
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Carbon has 6, oxygen 8, aluminium (world spelling of it) has 13 and sodium has 11, therefore carbon has the fewest
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It is believed that Albertus Magnus obtained the element in 1250 A.D. who obtained it by heating soap together with orpiment (arsenic trisulphide, As2S3). But actually Arsenic has been known since ancient times. It is so old, nobody knows who first discovered it or when. Arsenic compounds were mined by the early Chinese, Greek and Egyptian civilizations. No doubt they discovered its toxic properties early on. I don't know if anybody could find a name from the ancient history.
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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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Probably copper, which was one of several elements known to prehistoric man, and can be found in free form.  Carbon, as charcoal, might also qualify.
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Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen