Portal latinoamericano de toxicología
Trivia # 34: Mercury as a element
2 October, 2009
Toxicological trivia, October 2, 2009: Mercury was first described as a element by:
a) The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his experiments on the composition of air;
b) The English chemist John Dalton, as formulated the atomic theory;
c) Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist known for having developed the periodic table of chemical elements.
a) The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his experiments on the composition of air;
b) The English chemist John Dalton, as formulated the atomic theory;
c) Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist known for having developed the periodic table of chemical elements.
Answer a. Read more in Spanish in the monograph by Ana Digón, Mercury: Information Booklet.