Afterword
“The history of the periodic table is also a history of the discovery of the chemical elements. The first person in history to discover a new element was Hennig Brand, a bankrupt German merchant. Brand tried to discover the Philosopher’s Stone—a mythical object that was supposed to turn inexpensive base metals into gold. In 1649, his experiments with distilled human urine resulted in the production of a glowing white substance, which he named phosphorus.”
“History of the periodic table,” Wikipedia, last modified July 23,2015, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table
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