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Libby   /lˈɪbi/   Listen
Libby

noun
1.
United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980).  Synonym: Willard Frank Libby.






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"Libby" Quotes from Famous Books



... tale, and the reader can look out upon the wide shimmering sea as it flashes back the sunlight, and imagine himself afloat with Harry Vandyne, Walter Morse, Jim Libby and that old shell-back, Bob Brace, on the brig Bonita. The boys discover a mysterious document which enables them to find a buried treasure. They are stranded on an island and at last are rescued ...
— Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation • James Otis

... if you are ready, we'll walk round to the Libby," he added, with a hardness of tone I had not observed in his ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various

... Vernon, the Libby Prison at Richmond, and John Brown's Engine House at Harper's Ferry, this is to the stranger the most interesting piece of scenery in the Old Dominion. So firm and substantial is the masonry that it is supposed to have been standing long before the ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 39., Saturday, December 24, 1870. • Various



Words linked to "Libby" :   Willard Frank Libby, chemist



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