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Cavendish, Henry (1731–1810)


Henry Cavendish
English chemist and physicist who showed hydrogen ("inflammable air") to be a distinct gas, water to be a compound and not an elementary substances, and the composition of the atmosphere to be constant. Cavendish also used a torsion balance to measure the density of the Earth (1798).


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