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Uncommon card · Science
Humphry Davy, an Uncommon card
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and an early form of arc lamp.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Ranked #878 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium, and boron the following year, and for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.
- Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry.
- He is credited with discovering clathrate hydrates.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Humphry Davy article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Humphry Davy
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Humphry Davy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Phillips, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
