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Definition of Sir 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 Sir 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. The Cymry of '76: Or, Welshmen, & 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. ..."
3. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1873)
"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. ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1834)
"I. Some Observations on a Note of M, A. Van Beek, purporting to point out an
Error in the Bakerian Lecture of the late Sir Humphrey Davy " On the Relation ..."
5. 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 ..."
6. 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 ..."
7. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1817)
"By Sir HUMPHREY DAVY, LL.DFRS THE different colours examined by this eminent
chemist, have been found in making excavations in the Roman territory; ..."
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