Editing 1772 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* [[Daniel Rutherford]] isolates [[nitrogen]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/elementsofchemis0000lavo|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/elementsofchemis0000lavo/page/15 15]|title=Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order: containing all the modern discoveries|last=Lavoisier|first=Antoine Laurent|authorlink=Antoine Lavoisier|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|year=1965|isbn=0-486-64624-6| accessdate=30 September 2010 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Priestley]] synthesizes [[nitrous oxide]] as ''phlogisticated nitrous air''.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1973683|last=Keys|first=T. E.|title=The Development of Anesthesia|journal=Anesthesiology|year=1941|volume=2|pages=552–574|doi=10.1097/00000542-194109000-00008|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[Antoine Lavoisier]] privately presents his own views on [[phlogiston theory]] to the [[French Academy of Sciences]].
* [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]] demonstrates that metals gain weight on [[calcination]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Louis-Bernard|last=Guyton de Morveau|chapter=Dissertation dur la phlogistique|title=Digressions académiques, ou essais sur quelgues sujets de physique, de chymie & d'histoire naturelle|location=Dijon|publisher=Frantin|year=1772}}</ref>