Consistently, he renamed these new metals potassium and sodium. At first, Davy called metallic potassium and sodium “the basis of potash” and “basis of soda,” respectively. Sir Humphry Davy, a prominent English scientist of the 19th century, electrolyzed sodium, Na, and potassium, K, and named them in 1807. The alkali metals Na and K reside in the first column of the periodic table. So, this review approves the common statement: “The Past is a clue for the Future.” These processes are ceramic and glass making, binding materials in construction, textile treatment, metallurgy, etc. In contrast, there has been a similarity of targets for implementing alkali and alkali-earth salts and hydroxides in everyday life, from the ancient past till the modern period. The review obviously reveals that many modern chemical manufacturing processes using alkali and alkali-earth salts and hydroxides have a very ancient history. The current review of the archeological, historical, and technological data provides the readers with the scope of the different everyday life applications of alkali and alkali-earth salts and hydroxides from ancient times till nowadays. However, the consumption of these alkali containing ashes, as well as natron salts and calcined lime-based materials used for different customer purposes, like therapy, pharmacy, cosmetics, glass making, textile treating, dyes, brick making, binding materials, etc., was commonly known since the very ancient times. They have been widely used in therapy, cosmetics, and pharmacy in Mediaeval Europe and the Middle East. These ashes are characterized nowadays as mildly basic. The word “alcali” & “alkali” was borrowed in the 14th century by literary Roman-Germanic languages from Arabic al-qalī, al-qâly ou al-qalawi (), which means “calcinated ashes” of saltwort plants. Although sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium were isolated as the chemical elements by Sir Humphry Davy for the first time at the beginning of the 19th century, alkali salts and hydroxides have been widely known and used since the very ancient time.
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