Jöns Jacob Berzelius, accepting Humphry Davy's theory…

1823 CE

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.)

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