British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)
双语例句
1. Mrs. Cavendish is a dear friend of mine.
凯文迪许太太是我亲爱的朋友。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2. A century earlier, Henry Cavendish had noted the existence of a residual gas when oxygen and nitrogen are removed from air, but its importance had not been realized.