HISTORY

=**History of Sodium**= in 1807 Sir Humphry Davy discoverd Sodium. Davy started by recearching the work of Volta, an Italian physicist, Nicholson, an English chemist who discovered the electrolysis of water. Davy discovered Sodium when he was trying to find the difference between potash and soda ash. He used electrolysis when he discovered Sodium. The German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen isolated Sodium into purest form.

The word Sodium comes from the Arabic word "suda" = headache. Soda is used in Latin as "sodanum" = headache remedy.

Sodium is commonly found in Earth's atmosphere, soil, crust, and oceans. Sodium is the 4th most abundant element on Earth.