Back in 1812 Humphry Davy thought that the force of volcanic explosions might be caused by highly reactive elements like potassium, so he set up a potassium volcano experiment to demonstrate his idea to the audience 💥 He was a bit off the mark... | ChemClub

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Sir Humphry Davy Electricity Parking Experiment. Sir Humphry Davy, (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 descovery of 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