Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London v.75 (1785)

42. Composition of Water Cavendish's two papers described his discovery that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and destroyed the Aristotelian notion that water is an element.
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42. Composition of Water

Cavendish's two papers described his discovery that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and destroyed the Aristotelian notion that water is an element.