“The general conclusion to which Cavendish came was, in his own words, "that water consists of dephlogisticated air united with phlogiston," and as dephlogisticated air was his term for oxygen, and phlogiston his term for {{w|hydrogen}}, this statement corresponds to the modern view of the nature of water introduced by Lavoisier.”

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