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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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FRIEND, J. The Discovery of Magnesium. Nature 166, 615 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166615b0
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