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Definition of Humphrey Davy
1. Noun. 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).
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Literary usage of Humphrey Davy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1837)
"By Sir Humphrey Davy, LL. D. London:. Agriculture, in its broadest sense, may be
defined the cultivation of the earth; and it is probably the most ancient ..."
2. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1877)
"STATUE TO SIR Humphrey Davy. A statue has just been erected to the memory of Sir
Humphrey Davy at Penzance, in Cornwall, at a cost of £600. ..."
3. Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and by James Philemon Holcombe (1866)
"Lord Byron to Mr. Murray—An Italian Lady and Sir Humphrey Davy. ... Sir Humphrey
Davy was here last fortnight, and I was in his company in the house of a ..."
4. The Cymry of '76; Or, Welshmen and Their Descendants of the American by Alexander Jones, Samuel Jenkins (1855)
"SIR Humphrey Davy was born of poor parents, at Pen- zance, in Cornwall: and
was (as both his names import) of Ancient Briton stock. DR. ..."
5. Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth by Charlotte Campbell Bury (1839)
"LINES BY SIR Humphrey Davy. TO THE GLOW-WORM. Thou little gem of purest hue, Who
from thy throne ..."
6. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1817)
"... Humphrey Davy, LL.DFRS THE different colours examined by this eminent chemist,
have been found in making excavations in the Roman territory; ..."
7. People's Book of Biography: Or, Short Lives of the Most Interesting Persons by James Parton (1868)
"SIR Humphrey Davy. IN the spring of 1801 the fashionable world of London was much
... Humphrey Davy was the name of the lecturer of whom we have spoken. ..."
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