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Oxygen was discovered when someone noticed fire gets excited around it. Which means chemistry started as arson-curious.

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Oxygen was identified in the 1770s by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley, and Antoine Lavoisier named it. Its role in combustion was understood through experiments, not arson.

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