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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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);
[syn: Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Sir Humphrey Davy n 1: 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) [syn: Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy]