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Tennant is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1804. He also contributed to the proof of the identity of diamond and charcoal. The mineral Tennantite is named after him.

Tennant was born in Selby in Yorkshire. He began to study medicine at EdinburghArthur's Seat. See also for a panoramic view from Holyrood Park towards Ocean Terminal. Edinburgh (pronounced ED-in-burra ( SAMPA: ["Ed@n%b@r@])), Dun Eideann in Scottish Gaelic, is a major and historic city on the east coast of Scotland on the south shor in 1781, but in a few months moved to CambridgeThis article is about Cambridge, England; see also other places called Cambridge. The city of Cambridge is an old English University town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London and i, where he devoted himself to botanyBotany is the scientific study of plants. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s or plant biology . Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, dis and chemistryChemistry is the science of matter and its interactions with energy (see physics, biology). Because of the diversity of matter (which is mostly atomic), Chemists are often engaged in the pursuit of studying how atoms interact to form molecules, and how mo. He graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 1790, and about the same time purchased an estate near CheddarCheddar is a town in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the Mendip Hills eight miles south east of Taunton. The town has a population of 5,724 ( 2002 estimate). It is famous for having given its name to Cheddar cheese which is one of the most popu, where he carried out agricultural experiments. He was appointed professor of chemistry at Cambridge in 1813, but lived to deliver only one course of lectures, being killed near BoulogneBoulogne is the name of several communes in France: Boulogne in the Vendee departement Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Hauts-de-Seine departement Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais departement''. by the fall of a bridge over which he was riding.

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