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Who later reproduced Cavendish's experiments and named the element?

  • Isaac Newton

  • Antoine Lavoisier

  • Marie Curie

  • Nickel Tesla

Answer

Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiments and named the element hydrogen. Cavendish's experiments were published in 1766, but they were not well known at the time. Lavoisier repeated Cavendish's experiments in 1783 and named the element hydrogen.
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