Chemist, famed for isolating elements, also helped the police

Chemist, famed for isolating elements, also helped the police

How many of the elements on the periodic table can you name? If you can get through the first 70, you’ll have listed an element that was discovered by one of our quietest neighbors buried in Forest Home Cemetery.  For over 2,500 years, scientists, chemists, philosophers, and naturalists have been interested in identifying the very basic blocks of the natural world. In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier defined an element as a substance whose smallest units…