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- English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
How To Use Humphrey Davy In A Sentence
- Bentley composed the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist credited with isolating and naming aluminum. And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- The literary form, the clerihew, was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium.
- It was not until 1807, however, that Sir Humphrey Davy identified boron as a chemical element.
