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Young people must break machines to learn how to use them; get another made!

Henry Cavendish

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.

Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish

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Born: October 10, 1731

Died: February 24, 1810 (aged 78)

Bio: Henry Cavendish was a British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. Cavendish is noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air".

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