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How was barium found?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Barium was discovered in 1808 by Sir Humphrey Davy when he used a technique later to be called electrolysis. The first time Day produced barium, he did it by having an electric current pass through molten barium hydroxide.

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