Schönbein named the new gas ozone, derived from the Greek word "ozein," which means "to smell". He discovered this gas in 1840 while passing an electrical discharge through oxygen and observing a distinct, strange smell.
Schonbein (1840), found that when an electrical discharge was passed through oxygen (or air) a new gas of a strange smell is formed. He named this new gas as:
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