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Davy
[ dey-vee ]
noun
- Sir Humphry, 1778–1829, English chemist.
Davy
/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- DavySir Humphry17781829MEnglishSCIENCE: chemistTECHNOLOGY: inventor Sir Humphry. 1778–1829, English chemist who isolated sodium, magnesium, chlorine, and other elements and suggested the electrical nature of chemical combination. He invented the Davy lamp See Davy lamp
Davy
- British chemist who was a pioneer of electrochemistry. By means of electrolysis Davy isolated several elements, including sodium and potassium (1807), and barium, boron, calcium, and magnesium (1808). He also proved that diamonds are a form of carbon.
Example Sentences
Davies Symphony Hall, where Tilson Thomas presided over the San Francisco Symphony for an influential quarter century, was festooned with giant blue balloons.
Director of water services Marc Davies said: "Use the water you need but don't waste it. It's things like when you're brushing your teeth, to turn the taps off."
Haulage company director Scott Davies welcomed the new stretch of road, but said work was needed elsewhere, such as a relief road around Newport, which the Welsh government previously said had "come and gone".
Davies, 62, won a silver medal at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and has long argued against the inclusion of trans women in women's sport.
Davies writes that his central subject is “the biggest problem of modern industrial life — the problem of being overloaded with information, of ‘trying to get a drink from a firehose.’”
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