Abstract
The complete immunity of gold to oxidation was not always understood in the early days of chemistry. The Dutch chemist Van Marum, reluctant to abandon the concept of phlogiston, carried out a remarkable series of experiments on the oxidation of metals—including an unsuccessful attempt to oxidise gold—that was crucial to the general acceptance of Lavoisier’s new theory of combustion and reduction and thus to the final abandonment of the erroneous phlogiston theory.
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