History+of+Sodium+(anouk)

Sodium was discovered in 1807 by a scientist with the name Sir Humphrey Davy. Sir Humphrey was born in 1778 and died in 1829, so 22 years after discovering Sodium. Sir Humphrey was a British chemist and physicist who was best known for all his electro-chemistry experiments, and his invention of the miner’s safety lamp. He used the process of electrolysis where an electrical current is passed through a molten sodium compound such as sodium chloride; sodium was first extracted into its pure form. The exact first time that sodium was used is unknown, but we know that it has been used far longer than it has been discovered for. Sodium dates back to the Ancient Egyptians, and Mesopotamians who made glasses out of sodium. Homepage