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The 16 pages that link to Carl Wilhelm Scheele, each with the reason it gives.

• Citric acidRelated: Scheele isolated citric acid from lemon juice in 1784.

• GlycerolRelated: Scheele isolated glycerol in 1779 while studying the products of heating fats with lead oxide.

• Joseph PriestleyRelated: Scheele’s independent experiments complicate priority claims surrounding oxygen’s discovery.

• TungstenRelated: His 1781 study of scheelite revealed tungstic acid, though not the isolated metal.

• Phlogiston theoryRelated: Scheele discovered oxygen while interpreting gases within a phlogiston framework.

• BariumRelated: His studies of barium compounds helped establish that baryta contained a distinct substance.

• MolybdenumRelated: Scheele showed that molybdenite contained an unknown element, distinguishing it from graphite.

• Nitrous acidRelated: Scheele's work on nitrogen compounds helped establish early chemistry of the acids and oxides.

• Chemical RevolutionRelated: His independent preparation of oxygen illustrates the experimental work preceding its new theory.

• Mercury(II) chlorideRelated: Scheele’s chlorine research helped clarify the chemistry of metal chlorides.

• Maleic acidRelated: Scheele is credited with discovering maleic acid in the eighteenth century.

• Lactococcus lactisRelated: His work helped establish the chemical basis of milk souring that fermentation cultures cause.

• WolframiteRelated: His work on tungsten-bearing minerals preceded isolation of the element.

• Manganese(II) oxideRelated: Scheele studied manganese minerals and helped establish the chemistry surrounding manganese oxides.

• Paris greenRelated: His earlier arsenical pigment provides a precursor in the history of Paris green.

• PyrogallolRelated: Scheele isolated pyrogallol by heating gallic acid, the preparation reflected in its name.