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Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829). Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) discovered the barium ore baryta (barium monoxide), Davy produced the metal. 

Barium - the atomic number is 56 and the chemical symbol is Ba. The name is derived from the Greek barys for heavy since it was found in the mineral heavy spar (BaSOJ. It was discovered by the Swedish pharmacist and chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 and it was first isolated by the British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808. 

In 1787 William Cruikshank (1745-1795) isolated, but did not identify, strontium from the mineral strontianite he examined. In 1790 Dr. Adair Crawford (1748—1794), an Irish chemist, discovered strontium by accident as he was examining barium chloride. He found a substance other than what he expected and considered it a new mineral. He named the new element strontium and its mineral strontianite after a village in Scotland. In 1808 Sir Humphry Davy treated the ore with hydrochloric acid, which produced strontium chloride. He then mixed mercury oxide with the strontium chloride to form an amalgam alloy of the two metals that collected at the cathode of his electrolysis apparatus. He heated the resulting substance to vaporize the mercury, leaving the strontium metal as a deposit. 

Chemists did not discover the mineral witherite (BaCO ) until the eighteenth century. Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742—1786) discovered barium oxide in 1774, but he did not isolate or identify the element barium. It was not until 1808 that Sir Humphry Davy used molten barium compounds (baryta) as an electrolyte to separate, by electrolysis, the barium cations, which were deposited at the negative cathode as metallic barium. Therefore, Davy received the credit for bariums discovery. 

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British chemist Sir Humphry Davy Soft, reactive, abundant metal as barium sulfate, it blocks transmission during diagnostic X rays to highlight organs and other tissue. 

William Cruickshank in 1787 and Adair Crawford in 1790 independently detected strontium in the mineral strontianite, small quantities of which are associated with calcium and barium minerals. They determined that the strontianite was an entirely new mineral and was different from baryta and other barium minerals known at the time. In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy isolated strontium by electrolysis of a mixture of moist strontium hydroxide or chloride with mercuric oxide, using a mercury cathode. The element was named after the town Strontian in Scotland where the mineral strontianite was found. 

Sir Humphry Davy, 1778—1829. English chemist and physicist. One of the founders of electrochemistry. Inventor of die safety lamp for miners. He was the first to isolate potassium, sodium, calcium, barium, strontium, and magnesium. Davy in England and Gay-Lussac and Thenard in France, working independently, were die first to isolate boron. 

Sir Humphry Davy isolated the metal in 1808 by the method he had used for calcium and barium (5, 3). In 1924 P. S. Danner of the University of California allowed the oxides of barium and strontium to react with magnesium or aluminum and, upon distilling, obtained both barium and strontium in a high state of purity. His method was a refinement of the one previously used by A. Guntz (33, 34). 

A Note on the Alkaline-earth Family. The early chemists gave the name earth to many non-metallic substances. Magnesium oxide and calcium oxide were found to have an alkaline Reaction, and hence were called the alkaline earths. The metals themselves (magnesium, calcium, strondum, and barium) were isolated in 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy. Beryllium was discovered in the mineral beryl (BegAl2S QOjg) in 1798 and was isolated in 1828. 

Barium was first isolated in 1808 by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829). In 1807 and 1808, Davy also discovered five other new elements sodium, potassium, strontium, calcium, and magnesium. All... 

English chemist Sir Humphry Davy isolates a number of elements in a pure form for the first time, including potassium, sodium, magnesium, barium, calcium, and strontium. 

Sir Humphry Davy was an English scientist, who discovered metals such as potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, calcium and magnesium. His most famous invention was a safety lamp for use in coal mines where the highly inflammable gas, methane, is often found. Davy first proposed the name for the element with the symbol Al and called it alumium, but he changed his mind, a few years later, and called it aluminum. Many British users disliked this name, however, because it didn t conform with the ium ending given in the names of metals and adopted the name aluminium. Americans still prefer aluminum, which is why you will see this spelling in their textbooks. 

Davy, Sir Humphry (i778-i829) British chemist, who studied gases at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, where he discovered the anaesthetic properties of dinitrogen oxide (nitrous oxide). He moved to the Royal Institution, London, in 1801 and five years later isolated potassium and sodium by electrolysis. He also prepared barium, boron, calcium, and strontium as well as proving that chlorine and iodine are elements. In 1816 he invented the Davy lamp. 

Barium Ba 56 137.3 1808 Sir Humphry Davy (GB) barite, a heavy spar, derived from Gr. barys, heavy... 

There have been a number of major episodes in the history of chemistry when half a dozen or so elements were discovered almost at once, or within a period of a few years. Of course, some elements, such as iron, copper, gold, and other metak, have been known since antiquity. In fact, historians and archeologists refer to certain epochs in human history as the Iron Age or the Copper Age. The alchemists added several more elements to the list, including sulfur, mercury, and phosphorus. In relatively modem times, the discovery of electricity enabled chemists to isolate many of the more reactive elements that, imUke copper and iron, could not be obtained by heating their ores with carbon. The English chemist Humphry Davy seized upon the use of electricity or, more specifically, electrolysis to isolate as many as 10 elements, including calcium, barium, magnesium, sodium, and chlorine. 

A Humphry Davy was one of the first scientists to discover new elements using batteries. He discovered six elements (sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium) this way. 

The element was first identified by the British chemist Adair Crawford in 1790 (Edinburgh, Scotland). Actually, he recognized a new heavy mineral (later named strontianite) that differed from the heavy barium sulfate barite. Later, in 1809, the metal was first isolated by the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy by performing molten-salt electrolysis of strontium chloride. 

Barium was first identified in the mineral barite by the Swedish chemist Scheele in 1774. The pure element was first prepared in 1808 by British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, who produced barium amalgam by electrolyzing an aqueous solution of barium chloride using a liquid-mercury cathode. After distilling mercury from the barium amalgam formed, he obtained pure barium metal. 

English chemist Humphry Davy discovers the elements barium and calcium. French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac proposes Gay-Lussac s law gases combine among themselves in very simple proportions. English chemist John Dalton publishes A New System of Chemical Philosophy, in which he formulates the atomic weight theory. Davy, Gay-Lussac, and French chemist Louis-Jacques Thenard isolate the element boron. Polish chemist Jedrzej Sniadecki discovers the element ruthenium. 

Boron was known to the ancients in the form of borax, which was used for various types of glass. Boron is almost always found directly bound to oxygen and is difficult to prepare in pure form. In 1808 the ebullient chemist Sir Humphry Davy, whom we encountered as the discoverer of potassium and sodium (p. 324) as well as magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium (p. 355), was just barely beaten (by 9 days) to the discovery of boron by the French chemists Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thenard. Yes, this is the same Gay-Lussac who proved (in 1802) that the volume of a gas is directly proportional to the temperature. (Jacques Charles, a French physicist, actually formulated this relationship some 15 years earlier, but... 

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