Editing Electrolysis (section)

=== Timeline ===
* 1785 – [[Martinus van Marum]]'s electrostatic generator was used to reduce [[tin]], [[zinc]], and [[antimony]] from their salts using electrolysis.<ref>The Supplement (1803 edition) to Encyclopædia Britannica 3rd edition (1797), volume 1, page 225, "Mister Van Marum, by means of his great electrical machine, decomposed the calces of tin, zinc, and antimony, and resolved them into their respective metals and oxygen" and gives as a reference Journal de Physiques, 1785.</ref>
* 1800 – [[William Nicholson (chemist)|William Nicholson]] and [[Anthony Carlisle]] (and also [[Johann Ritter]]), decomposed [[water]] into [[hydrogen]] and [[oxygen]].
* 1808 – [[Potassium]] (1807), [[sodium]] (1807), [[barium]], [[calcium]] and [[magnesium]] were discovered by [[Sir Humphry Davy#Elements|Humphry Davy]] using electrolysis.
* 1821 – [[Lithium]] was discovered by the English chemist [[William Thomas Brande]], who obtained it by electrolysis of lithium oxide.
* 1834 – [[Michael Faraday]] published his [[Faraday's laws of electrolysis|two laws of electrolysis]], provided a mathematical explanation for them, and introduced terminology such as electrode, electrolyte, anode, cathode, anion, and cation.
* 1875 – [[Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] discovered [[gallium]] using electrolysis.<ref>{{cite journal|author= Lecoq de Boisbaudran P-E |journal=The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgDOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA294|year=1875|volume=32|page=294|title=On certain properties of gallium}}</ref>
* 1886 – [[Fluorine]] was discovered by [[Henri Moissan]] using electrolysis.
* 1886 – [[Hall–Héroult process]] developed for making [[aluminium]].
* 1890 – [[Castner–Kellner process]] developed for making [[sodium hydroxide]].
* 1902 – Stanisław Łaszczyński obtained [[copper]] using electrolysis.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />
* 1930 – Development of the modern chlor-alkali process (electrolysis of brine to produce chlorine and sodium hydroxide), which became an important industrial method.<ref>Electrochemical Society. (n.d.). ''Metals & Chemicals''. Retrieved February 2, 2025, fromElectrochemical Society. (n.d.). ''Metals & Chemicals''. Retrieved<nowiki/>https://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/resources/chemicals/pdfs/profile_chap6.pdf</ref>