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Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)

Henry Cavendish was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On Factitious Airs. Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name.

10 October 1731

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