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Who gave sodium its name?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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The British used soda as the name for the commonly known chemical compounds such as baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). In 1807, British scientist Sir Humphry Davy discovered that sodium was an element. He took the familiar name and changed it slightly from soda to sodium.

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