GK
BASIC GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Question
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Sir Humphry Davy was a British chemist who
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invented the safety lamp for miners
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discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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None of the above
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both (a) and (b)
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sodium was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1807.
Detailed explanation-3: -Humphry Davy is notorious for his knowledge of electrolysis, the force that he used to isolate elements. Davy used a Voltic Pile, the first continuous current-producing battery invented by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1799.
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