Henry Cavendish and the carbon dioxide
Two hundred years from the dead happened the 24 February 1810 to London is celebrated one between the more important scientists than all the times, Henry Cavendish been born to Nizza in 1731 of noble family, studied to Cambridge but without to finish the studies from the moment that was attempt to its scientific searches, in particular on the gas described in the important work "Experiments on the air" of 1785 and on the electricity published after the dead "Researches on the electricity", fields in which it made discovered remarkable succeeding to split the hydrogen (as Paracelso had intuited) then succeeded to isolate also the carbon dioxide, described the nitric acid, intuited the characteristics of what then argon was called gas and anticipated with its studies on the electricity the main discoveries in this field. Of timid and reserved character perhaps because of a light stutter, partially ridicule, were erected then a monument in his honor to Derby on the tomb of family.
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Date: 24/02/2010
 article n°: 1206
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