The Discovery of Magnesium | Nature


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IN a recent little book entitled “The Story of Magnesium”, issued by the American Society of Metals in 1949, the author, W. H. Gross, states (p. 17): “The discovery of magnesium is generally


attributed to Sir Humphrey [sic] Davy in 1808. He did not actually obtain magnesium in metallic form, but merely established the fact that magnesium oxide was the oxide of a new metal.


Magnesium was first isolated in 1828 by the French scientist Bussy….”


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