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Sodium was first prepared by

  1. Humphry Davy

  2. Balard

  3. Barton

  4. Berg

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Building on Volta's concepts, English chemist Humphry Davy, first produced sodium, from the electrolysis of molten sodium hydroxide, in 1807. Subsequently, Davy isolated potassium, another alkali metal, from potassium hydroxide in the same year. Lithium was discovered in 1817.

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