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Davy's Grey Color 282 - #555555

Davy's gray is a dark gray color, made from powdered slate, iron oxide and carbon black named for Henry Davy. The first recorded use of Davy's gray as a color name in English was around 1940.

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. Foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering, but instead is in planes perpendicular to the direction of metamorphic compression.