An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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CAVENDISH, Henry

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Experiments on air.

Phil. Trans., 74, 119-53, 1784.

Cavendish isolated hydrogen in 1766, and later demonstrated the composition of air.



Subjects: Chemistry, RESPIRATION