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1896 in science

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The year 1896 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Chemistry

  • April – Svante Arrhenius first publishes the "greenhouse law", becoming the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to cause global warming through the greenhouse effect.[1]

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