History
The word electrolysis comes from the Greek ἤλεκτρον "amber" and λύσις "dissolution".
- 1785 - Martinus van Marum's electrostatic generator was used to reduce tin, zinc, and antimony from their salts using electrolysis.
- 1800 – William Nicholson and Johann Ritter decomposed water into hydrogen and oxygen.
- 1807 – Potassium, sodium, barium, calcium and magnesium were discovered by Sir Humphry Davy using electrolysis.
- 1875 – Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered gallium using electrolysis.
- 1886 – Fluorine was discovered by Henri Moissan using electrolysis.
- 1886 – Hall-Héroult process developed for making aluminium
- 1890 – Castner-Kellner process developed for making sodium hydroxide
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