| known before 1700 |
discovered 1700 - 1799 |
discovered 1800 - 1849 |
discovered 1850 - 1899 |
| Antimony Silver Arsenic Carbon Copper Tin Iron Mercury Gold Phosphorus Lead Sulphur |
Nitrogen Beryllium Bismuth Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Fluorine Hydrogen Manganese Molybdenium Nickel Oxygen Platinum Strontium Tellurium Titanium Tungsten Uranium Yttrium Zinc Zirconium |
Aluminium Barium Boron Bromine Cadmium Calcium Cerium Erbium Iodine Iridium Lanthanum Lithium Magnesium Niobium Osmium Palladium Potassium Rubidium Selenium Silicon Sodium Tantalum Thorium Vanadium |
Actinium Argon Caesium Dysprosium Gadolinium Gallium Germanium Helium Holmium Indium Krypton Neodymium Neon Polonium Praseodymium Radium Rhodium Ruthenium Samarium Scandium Thallium Thulium Xenon Ytterbium |
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