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单词 Davy
释义 Davy1|ˈdeɪvɪ|
In full Davy lamp, Davy's lamp.
[Named after the inventor.]
The miner's safety-lamp invented by Sir Humphry Davy, in which the flame is surrounded with wire-gauze, so as to prevent its communication to explosive gases outside the lamp.
1817Faraday in B. Jones Life I. 214 The great desideratum of a lamp to afford light with safety:..merely to refer to that which alone has been found efficacious, the Davy.1880C. M. Mason Forty Shires 15 The men find fault with the Davy.
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