Editing 1793 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* Scottish chemist [[Thomas Charles Hope]] confirms the existence of the [[alkaline earth metal]] which he names ''strontites''; later isolated as ''[[strontium]]''.<ref>Although Hope had investigated strontium ores since 1791, his research was published in: {{cite journal | last1 = Hope | first1 = Thomas C | year = 1798 | title = Account of a mineral from Strontian and of a particular species of earth which it contains | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1428672| journal = [[Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] | volume = 4 | issue = 2| pages = 3–39 | doi=10.1017/s0080456800030726}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Murray|first=T.|year=1993|title=Elemementary Scots: The Discovery of Strontium|journal=Scottish Medical Journal|volume=38|pages=188–189|pmid=8146640|issue=6|doi=10.1177/003693309303800611|s2cid=20396691}}</ref>