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    Ammonium chloride was known as sal ammonia and was manufactured by ancient alchemists by heating dung, salt, and urine. In the 1760s, Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley obtained nitrogen gas by removing oxygen from air, noting that it extinguished flames and killed mice. It was a young student, Daniel Rutherford, who first suggested in his 1772 doctorate thesis that nitrogen was an element.

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    Ammonium chloride was known as sal ammonia and was manufactured by ancient alchemists by heating dung, salt, and urine. In the 1760s, Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley obtained nitrogen gas by removing oxygen from air, noting that it extinguished flames and killed mice. It was a young student, Daniel Rutherford, who first suggested in his 1772 doctorate thesis that nitrogen was an element.

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    Nitrogen in the form of ammonium chloride, NH 4Cl, was known to the alchemists as sal ammonia.

    It was
    manufactured in Egypt by heating a mixture of dung, salt and urine. Nitrogen gas itself was obtained in the 1760s by
    both Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley and they did this by removing the oxygen from air. They noted it
    extinguished a lighted candle and that a mouse breathing it would soon die. Neither man deduced that it was an
    element. The first person to suggest this was a young student Daniel Rutherford in his doctorate thesis of September
    1772 at Edinburgh, Scotland.

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