Georg Bauer, the German physician and mineralogist…

1529 CE

Georg Bauer, the German physician and mineralogist better known as Agricola, describes the fluorine-containing mineral fluorspar (fluorite) in 1529, noting its use as flux in metallurgy.

Agricola also latinizes wismut to bisemutum, identifying the distinctive qualities of bismuth and describing how to obtain the element from its ores.

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