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People: Ahmad Shāh Massoud
Location: Wark Northumberland United Kingdom

Jöns Jacob Berzelius, accepting Humphry Davy's theory …

Years: 1823 - 1823

Jöns Jacob Berzelius, accepting Humphry Davy's theory that chlorine is an element, uses the collective name halogen in 1823 for the elements fluorine, chlorine and iodine. (Bromine will be added to the halogens following its discovery in 1826.)