Davy, Humphry magnesium

Because of their metallic and alkaline properties, potassium and especially sodium are widely used in a variety of industrial processes both as metals and as compounds with various other elements. Lithium is rarely used, but does find application in lightweight alloys with magnesium. Rubidium and cesium are not commonly utilized industrially, except for some applications in electronics. Sodium and potassium are essential for life, sodium being the principal extracellular and potassium the major intracellular monovalent cations. The other alkali metals have no essential biological role, see ALSO Bunsen, Robert Cesium Davy, Humphry Francium Lithium Mendeleev, Dimitri Potassium Rubidium Sodium. 

Because of their metallic properties and low mass, Be and Mg are used to form lightweight alloys for structural purposes. Ca sees less industrial use, although the phosphate is sometimes utifized in fertilizers. Sr and Ba have no significant industrial applications. Both Be and Ra are used in various devices, the former because it is quite transparent to x-rays and the latter because it is a ready source of both a- and y-radiation. Mg and Ca are essential to all living systems for many reasons the other alkali earths have no known biological roles, see also Beryllium Cesium Curie, Marie Sklodowska Davy, Humphry Francium Magnesium Potassium Rubidium Wohler, Friedrich. 

Compounds of magnesium, including the hydroxide, the chloride, the citrate, and the sulfate, are used in the medical field. Magnesium is an important element in both animal and plant fife. On average, adults reqtiire a daily intake of about 300 milligrams (0.011 ounces) of magnesium, see also Alkaline Earth Metals Black, Joseph Davy, Humphry Inorganic Chemistry. 

In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy reported the production of Mg in the form of an amalgam by electrolytic reduction of its oxide using a Hg cathode. In 1828, the Fr scientist A. Bussy fused Mg chloride with metallic K and became the first to produce free metallic Mg. Michael Faraday, in 1833, was the first to produce free metallic Mg by electrolysis, using Mg chloride. For many years, however, the metal remained a laboratory curiosity. In 1886, manuf of Mg was undertaken on a production scale in Ger, using electrolysis of fused Mg chloride. Until 1915, Ger remained the sole producer of Mg. However, when a scarcity of Mg arose in the USA as a result of the Brit blockade of Ger in 1915, and the price of Mg soared from 1.65 to 5.00 per lb, three producers initiated operations and thus started a Mg industry in the USA. Subsequently, additional companies attempted production of Mg, but by 1920 only two producers remained — The Dow Chemical Co (one of the original three producers) and. the American Magnesium Corn. In 1927. the latter ceased production, and Dow continued to be the sole domestic producer until 1941. The source of Mg chloride was brine pumped from deep wells. In 1941, Dow put a plant into operation at Freeport, Texas, obtaining Mg chloride from sea-... 

Boron (Buraq in Arabic/Burah in Persian, which is the word for white, the color being attributed to borax (sodium tetraborate, Na2B4O7.10H2O)) was discovered in 1808 independently by the British Chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, and two French chemists, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Loius Jacques Thenard.1 They isolated boron in 50% purity by the reduction of boric acid with sodium or magnesium. The Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzilius identified boron as an element in 1824. The first pine sample of boron was produced by the American chemist William Weintraub in 1909. Boron does not appear in nature in elemental form, but is found in its compounded... 

Magnesium (Mg, [Ne]3.v2), name, and symbol, from the Greek word Magnesia a city of Thessaly. Recognized as an element (1755) by Joseph Black, isolated (1808) by Humphry Davy. 

Magnesium Mg 1755 (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1808 (London, England) Joseph Black (Scottish) Sir Humphry Davy (British) 69... 

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). 

When Sir Humphry Davy isolated a little magnesium metal in the famous experiments already described, he called it magnium because, as he said, the word magnesium is easily confused with manganese. Nevertheless, the name magnesium has persisted, and the metal is no longer known by the one which Davy gave it. 

Within a few years, more elements were found. With the help of electricity, an English chemist, Humphry Davy, in a single year brought to light six new metals — among them sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. 

Metals high in the reactivity series have proved very difficult to isolate. It was not until more recent times, through Sir Humphry Davy s work on electrolysis, that potassium (1807), sodium (1807), calcium (1808) and magnesium (1808) were isolated. Aluminium, the most plentiful reactive metal in the Earth s crust, was not extracted from its ore until 1827, by Friedrich Wohler (p. 74), and the extremely reactive metal rubidium was not isolated until 1861 by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff. 

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... 

In 1808, English chemist Humphry Davy (1778-1829) solved the problem by passing an electric current through molten (melted) magnesium oxide (MgO). The current caused the compound to break apart, forming magnesium metal and oxygen gas ... 

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. 

Magnesium was first recognized as an element by Joseph Black in 1755. In 1808 Sir Humphry Davy isolated the element, and in 1831 H. Bussy devised a method for producing it. Magnesium, in its combined states, is readily abundant and is the eighth most common element in Earth s crust. Magnesium metal is silvery white in color. 

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. 

Magnesium Mg 12 24.31 1808 Sh Humphry Davy (GB) Magnesia, a district in Thessaly possibly derived from L. magnesia... 

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. 

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