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How was ozone discovered?
In 1785, the Dutch chemist Marum passed an electric current through the oxygen
above the mercury surface in a sealed glass tube and noticed a very strong and peculiar smell,
which seemed to be the smell of "electricity". He had no idea what this smell was.
In 1839, at the Natural Science Conference in Basel, a German named Schönbein discovered
a gas with a peculiar smell when electrolyzing sulfuric acid.
The smell was the same as the fishy odor in the air after a thunderstorm. He concluded
that this smell was produced by a new substance and named it ozone.
Thus, the mystery of ozone was accidentally unveiled.
In 1840, Schöbein officially submitted a report to the Munich Academy of Sciences,
announcing the discovery of ozone and naming it "OZEIN" in Greek.
He was also awarded the title of German chemical scientist and is recognized worldwide as the "father of ozone".
