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  1. Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davynoun

    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)

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  1. humphrey davy

    Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. Davy is also credited to have been the first to discover clathrate hydrates in his lab. In 1799 he experimented with nitrous oxide and was astonished at how it made him laugh, so he nicknamed it "laughing gas" and wrote about its potential anaesthetic properties in relieving pain during surgery.Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), and a member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 1810). Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry."

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    Humphrey Davy was a British chemist and inventor, born in 1778 and died in 1829. He is best known for his discoveries of several alkaline and alkaline earth metals, including sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, using the method of electrolysis. Davy also invented the Davy lamp, a safety device for miners to prevent explosions due to flammable gases. He was a significant figure in the early field of electrochemistry and his work contributed to the foundations of inorganic chemistry.

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    The numerical value of humphrey davy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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    The numerical value of humphrey davy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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