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World Service,26 Jun 1998,14 mins

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Oxygen is the most abundant element on Earth and it is massively reactive. Carl Wilhelm Scheele, from Uppsala, first published its discovery in 1773. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1998.

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