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Henry Cavendish
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[Wikipedia] Henry Cavendish was an English 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
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![“A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs from the rest, and cannot be reduced to nitrous acid, we may safely conclude that it is not more than 1/120 part of the whole. [ Cavendish did not realize the…” quote by Henry Cavendish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f1/henry-cavendish-118427_air_a-small-bubble-of-air-remained-unabsorbe_751063.jpg)