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The 23 pages that link to Joseph Priestley, each with the reason it gives.

• AmmoniaRelated: Priestley prepared gaseous ammonia in the eighteenth century and called it alkaline air.

• Benjamin FranklinRelated: Franklin’s friendship with Priestley connected his electrical experiments to Britain’s scientific community.

• Nitrous oxideRelated: Priestley prepared and described nitrous oxide in 1772.

• Antoine LavoisierRelated: His gas experiments informed Lavoisier’s interpretation of combustion, though the two explained them differently.

• Nitric oxideRelated: His experiments helped establish the chemistry of nitric oxide, then called nitrous air.

• Conservation of massRelated: His gas experiments informed the chemical investigations through which Lavoisier developed the principle.

• EthyleneRelated: He prepared and studied the gas later called olefiant gas.

• Humphry DavyRelated: Priestley’s gas research helped inspire the experimental questions pursued at Beddoes’s institution.

• Carl Wilhelm ScheeleCompared with: Priestley published his oxygen experiments before Scheele’s account appeared in print.

• AmmoniumRelated: His work on alkaline air helped establish ammonia chemistry from which ammonium is derived.

• Phlogiston theoryRelated: Priestley interpreted oxygen as dephlogisticated air and remained committed to phlogiston theory.

• William GodwinRelated: Priestley’s dissenting politics and faith in human improvement anticipated themes Godwin developed.

• UnitarianismRelated: His publications and migration carried English Unitarian ideas into the United States.

• BirminghamRelated: He lived and worked near Birmingham before the 1791 Birmingham riots forced him to leave.

• Henry CavendishRelated: Priestley’s gas research formed part of the experimental context for Cavendish’s work.

• Joseph BlackRelated: Priestley’s gas research followed the experimental tradition to which Black’s fixed-air work contributed.

• Chemical RevolutionRelated: His oxygen experiments helped prompt Lavoisier’s reinterpretation of combustion.

• Solid-state chemistryRelated: His work exemplifies early chemical investigation of substances later studied in solid compounds.

• William PlayfairRelated: Priestley’s timelines offered a precedent for arranging information spatially before Playfair’s statistical charts.

• Mercury(II) oxideRelated: Priestley produced oxygen by heating mercury oxide in 1774.

• Roger Joseph BoscovichRelated: Priestley discussed Boscovich’s theory of matter in his history of electricity.

• Jan Baptist van HelmontRelated: His eighteenth-century gas experiments developed a field van Helmont had helped establish.

• Stephen HalesRelated: Priestley’s later gas experiments developed a field Hales helped establish.