Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, and the Burning Lenses

Authors

  • Aleksander Sztejnberg Professor Emeritus, University of Opole, Opole, Poland.

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to familiarize readers with burning lenses, which were used by 18th century by some English and French chemists as a means of reaching high temperatures. However, not all experiments have given satisfactory results. The failures in the melting platinum using various burning lenses led Lavoisier to develop a new method of melting platinum using oxygen. In addition, in this article a literature was reviewed, including books on chemistry and the history of chemistry published in various countries to discuss the problem of oxygen discovery by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794).

Downloads

Published

2019-12-03

How to Cite

Sztejnberg, A. (2019). Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, and the Burning Lenses. NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (CENIC) CHEMICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL, 50(1), 103-113. Retrieved from https://revista.cnic.edu.cu/index.php/RevQuim/article/view/302