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:

شونبین (1840) نے پایا کہ جب برقی مادہ آکسیجن (یا ہوا) سے گزرتا ہے تو ایک عجیب بو کی نئی گیس بنتی ہے۔ اس نے اس نئی گیس کا نام کیا رکھا:
Answer: Ozone
Explanation

Schonbein (1840) concluded that Van Marums observations in 1785 of a peculiar smell,

when an electric discharge was passed through oxygen (or air), was in fact a new gas.

He named it Ozone,

which is derived from a Greek word ozoaterr meaning smell.

Soret in 1860, assigned the molecular formula O3.

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