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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