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Timeline of the Development of Chemical Compounds

1700 • German chemist Georg Ernst Stahl extracts acetic acid
from vinegar by distillation.

1702 • German chemist Wilhelm Homberg is believed to be
the first person to prepare boric acid in Europe.

1720s • German chemist Johann Schulze makes discoveries that
lead to using silver nitrate in printing and photography.

1746 • The first commercially successful method for making
sulfuric acid is developed.

1747 • German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf isolates
a sweet substance from raisins that comes to be known as
glucose.

1753 • James Lind reports that citrus fruits are the most
effective means of preventing scurvy.

1769 • Oxalic acid is first isolated by German chemist Johann
Christian Wiegleb.

1770s • British chemist Joseph Priestly does pioneering work
with the compounds carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,
hydrogen chloride, and nitrous oxide, among others.
1770s • Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele discovers and
works with phosphoric acid, glycerol, lactic acid, and
potassium bitartrate.

1754
1726 French and Indian
Czar Peter the Great War begins in
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