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davy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun davy has 1 sense
- davy(n = noun.person) humphrey davy, sir humphrey davy - English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829); Array is a kind of chemist
OXFORD DICTIONARY
davy, n. (pl. -ies) (in full Davy lamp) a miner's safety lamp with the flame enclosed by wire gauze to prevent an explosion of gas.
Etymology
Sir H. Davy, Engl. chemist d. 1829, who invented it
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