Chemistry
- Joseph Black describes how carbonates become more alkaline when they lose carbon dioxide, whereas the taking-up of carbon dioxide reconverts them.
- Scottish physician Francis Home publishes Experiments on Bleaching in Edinburgh.
- Mikhail Lomonosov disproves the phlogiston theory of combustion and pioneers the study of oxidation by converting tin to stannic oxide.
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