Sir Humphry Davy: boundless chemist, physicist, poet and man of action.
The years 2007 and 2008 mark the bi-centenary of two brilliant discoveries by Sir Humphry Davy: the isolation of sodium and potassium (1807) and the subsequent first observation (1808) of the beautiful blue and bronze colours now known to be characteristic of the solvated electron(1) in potassium-am...
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Language: | English |
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2008
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