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Noun: Humphry Davy
  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)
    - Davy, Sir Humphry Davy

Type of: chemist

Encyclopedia: Humphry Davy