what does Sir Humphrey Davy mean?
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY as NOUN
- Meaning
- 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)
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) Sir Humphrey Davy is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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