Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish - British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

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In 1776, Henry Cavendish, an English chemist and physicist who spent years studying the properties of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, discovered that hydrogen was a separate substance.

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Instead, physicists typically make precision measurements of gravity by using extremely delicate experiments, named after the 18th-century scientist Henry Cavendish, that determine the force between two suspended masses.

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In 1776, Henry Cavendish, an English chemist and physicist who spent years studying the properties of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, discovered that hydrogen was a separate element.

'PERFECT FUEL' ON THE WAY FIRM CREATES HYDROGEN CELL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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