Smithson Tennant
1761-1815
| He was a professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, who discovered osmium and iridium in platinum residues. He studied under Black (who performed the famous experiments on carbon dioxide). Tennant discovered that diamond was carbon by burning it and collecting the carbon dioxide in potash. | ||
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