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In 1766 Henry Cavendish discovered the element hydrogen, which he called inflammable air, by observing the release of hydrogen gas when various metals were treated with strong acids. He knew that hydrogen was the same inflammable air that had been studied for more than 100 years by Robert Boyle and other scientists, but without anyone knowing that it was a actually an element. Further experiments resulted in his finding that water consists of a combination of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in definite proportions.

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