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The 18 pages that link to Humphry Davy, each with the reason it gives.

• Michael FaradayRelated: Davy hired Faraday as his laboratory assistant and helped launch his scientific career.

• Nitrous oxideRelated: Davy investigated nitrous oxide’s effects and proposed its use in surgery.

• IodineRelated: Davy independently examined iodine soon after Courtois’s discovery.

• John DaltonRelated: Dalton participated in scientific circles where Davy’s chemical work had considerable influence.

• AcidRelated: His work challenged Lavoisier’s claim that oxygen was essential to acids.

• BoronRelated: Davy independently reported producing boron shortly after the French chemists.

• Incandescent light bulbRelated: His arc-light experiments preceded practical incandescent lamps and helped define electric lighting as a possibility.

• Element discoveryRelated: His experiments exemplify discovery by separating previously unknown elements from compounds.

• Alessandro VoltaRelated: Davy used powerful batteries developed from the voltaic pile in his electrochemical research.

• BariumRelated: In 1808, electrolysis enabled him to isolate barium in impure form.

• Voltaic pileRelated: Davy used voltaic batteries to discover or isolate metals including sodium and potassium.

• Royal InstitutionRelated: His early lectures and research made the new institution widely known.

• William Hyde WollastonRelated: Davy was Wollaston’s contemporary and a central figure in British chemistry.

• Allotropes of sulfurRelated: His experiments helped establish sulfur’s elemental status against earlier assumptions.

• StrontiumRelated: He isolated metallic strontium in 1808 by electrolyzing a strontium compound.

• London ZooRelated: Davy succeeded Raffles as society president and supported the zoo’s early scientific purpose.

• Mercury(I) chlorideRelated: Davy’s era helped shape the chemical understanding of mercury compounds and their composition.

• Nitrogen trichlorideRelated: His experiments with nitrogen trichloride caused severe eye injuries, demonstrating its extreme sensitivity.