1. Citações
  2. Autores
  3. Henry Cavendish

Frases de Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish foi um físico e químico franco-britânico nascido em Nice.

Conhecido por ter descoberto o hidrogênio, que ele chamou de "ar inflamável", e também por ter medido a densidade da Terra , além de pesquisas em eletricidade. Cavendish é conhecido também pela precisão de suas medições. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Outubro 1731 – 24. Fevereiro 1810
Henry Cavendish photo
Henry Cavendish: 1 citação0 Curtidas

Henry Cavendish: Frases em inglês

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

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)