 1775 - Antoine Lavoisier reported that heated mercury forms red calx (HgO), while the surrounding air is reduced in volume and no longer supports combustion; heating the calx liberates oxygen. |
| 1896 - Wallace Carothers born: invented nylon. |
| 1913 - Philip H. Abelson born: codiscovered neptunium (Np, element 93). |
| 1970 - Albert Ghiorso and coworkers announced discovery of element 105 (eventually named dubnium, Db) produced by bombarding californium-249 with nitrogen-15. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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