lorless, odorless and tasteless.
Oxygen was discovered in the 1770s independently by Carl
Wilhelm Scheele, in Sweden and Joseph Priestley in England in
1774; Priestley is often given priority because his work was
published first. Antoine Lavoisier coined the name Oxygen in 1777.
His experiments with oxygen helped to discredit the then-popular
phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion by proving that
oxygen was the reactive constituent of air.