It was this terminology that inspired Sir Humphrey Davy to call the element sodium when he first isolated it by passing an electric current through caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide, in 1807. This ...
To Davy's audience this was captivating. Here, in front of their eyes, he was demonstrating one of the latest scientific theories, that everything is made up of a limited number of elements.
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