A Timeline of the Discoveries of Chemical Elements

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May-June 2019

Volume 107, Number 3
Page 136

DOI: 10.1511/2019.107.3.136

The years shown for element discoveries subsequent to those elements which were known since antiquity are those in which the element was isolated for the first time. The flags identify the country in which the discovery was made, rather than the nationality of the discoverer(s).

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