Who is this British chemist and physicist who first identified carbon dioxide?

British chemist and physicist, Joseph Black, identified carbon dioxide – or, as he termed it, “fixed air”. He also discovered bicarbonates and the concept of latent heat, which, as defined by Oxford Dictionary, is "the heat required to convert a solid into a liquid or vapor, or a liquid into a vapor, without change of temperature." Great minds think alike apparently, as Black had some Enlightenment besties, amongst them economist Adam Smith, and philosopher David Hume.

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