15. Name the scientist who discovered the following.
(b) Oxygen

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Solution

Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774, but Antoine Lavoisier, a French scientist, gave it the name oxygen.
He named oxygen after the Greek word 'Oxygenes,' which means 'acid-producing.'

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