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Chemistry in the 1700s-quiz!

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Chemistry in the 1700s Quiz

Test your knowledge of chemistry and pivotal scientific discoveries from the 1700s! This quiz covers everything from the discovery of oxygen to groundbreaking inventions that shaped the modern world.

Multiple choice questions
Learn about key figures in chemistry
Fun and educational

11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by CuriousChemist42

Who first discovered oxygen (fire air)?

Antoine Lavoisier

Joseph Priestley

Carl Wihlem Scheele

Alessandro Volta

When was Watt's steam engine patended?

1734

1763

1776

1799

How did Scheele descover Cl (chlorine)?

Dissolved CaO2 (Calcium peroxide) in HCl (hydrochlorine acid) and warmed it

Dissolved MnO2 (pyrolusite) in HCl and warmed it

Dissolved ClO (sodium hypochlorite) in water and boiled it

Dissolved Ca(OH)2 (lime salt) in water and warmed it

Who of the following was not a mathematician? (of course all scientists know math)

Pierre Simon Laplace

Sophie Germain

Daniel Bernoulli

Carl Linnaeus

How did Jenner make the smallpox vaccine?

Using chickenpox

Using cowpox

Using swine pox

Jenner is a media model, not an 1700s physician

Which of the following is not ascosciated with Laplace

Mathamatics

Smoothing

Filter

Plane

Astrology

Demon

What is latent heat? (as Joseph Black described it)

Heat needed to turn liquid into gas

Heat needed to turn solid to gas

Heat lost/added when a body/system changes state

Heat lost to turn gas into liquid

Who invented the first battery?

Luigi Galvani

Andre-Marie Ampere

Michael Faraday

Alessandro Volta

Which of the following scientists proposed a wrong theory about electrecity?

Joseph Priestley

James Watt

John Dalton

Benjamin Franklin

Which scientist proved that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root?

Christian Goldbach

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Leonhard Euler

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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