7 ELEMENTAL MATTERSCHEMISTRY
on Rumford of t the English Garden.
In betakings, ime to conduct a good deal of solidscience. auty on t toelucidate tion of fluids and tion of ocean currents. ed several useful objects, including a drip coffeemaker, type of range still knooine-Laurent. t asuccess and ted. Rumford stayed on in France, his former wives, in 1814.
But our purpose in mentioning in 1799, during a comparatively briefinterlude in London, itution, yet anoties t popped into being all over Britain in te eigeenturies. For a time it titution of standing to actively promote try, and t entirely to a brilliant young mannamed ed titution’s professor of cry slyafter its inception and rapidly gained fame as an outstanding lecturer and productiveexperimentalist.
Soon after taking up ion, Davy began to bang out nes one afteranotassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and aluminum or aluminium,depending on which branch of English you favor.
1s not somucute as because ecricity to a molten substance—electrolysis, as it is knoogets, a fiftotal of unfortunately as a young man tac to tpleasures of nitrous oxide. taco t (literally) times a day. Eventually, in 1829, it is t to have killed him.
Fortunately more sober types person to intimate ture of an atom (progress t ely a little furtalian ic name of Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quarequa and Cerreto,made a discovery t erm—namely, t type, if kept at temperature, ainidentical numbers of molecules.