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Henry Cavendish byl britský fyzik a chemik.

Pocházel z významného šlechtického rodu Cavendishů, patřil k linii vévodů z Devonshire a byl synem lorda Charlese Cavendishe , dlouholetého poslance Dolní sněmovny a vědce. Henry Cavendish studoval v letech 1749 až 1754 na univerzitě v Cambridge, avšak nezískal univerzitní diplom. Ve studiu přírodních věd mohl pokračovat díky velkému dědictví; během jeho života byla však publikována jen malá část jeho prací. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. říjen 1731 – 24. únor 1810
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“I think we must allow that dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water, or water deprived of its phlogiston; or, in other words, that water consists of dephlogisticated air united to phlogiston; and that inflammable air is either pure phlogiston, as Dr. Priestley and Mr. Kirwan suppose [and as Cavendish formerly supposed], or else water united to phlogiston; since, according to this supposition, these two substances united together form pure water. On the other hand, if the first explanation be true, we must suppose that dephlogisticated air consists of water united to a little nitrous acid and deprived of its phlogiston; but still the nitrous acid in it must make only a very small part of the whole, as it is found, that the phlogisticated air, which it is converted into, is very small in comparison of the dephlogisticated air.”

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Henry Cavendish

pp. 171-172. https://books.google.com/books?id=ygqYnSR3oe0C&amp;pg=PA171 <br class="br">The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S (1921), Experiments on Air By (1784)