What were Henry Cavendish's researches on?

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His chief researches were on heat, in which he determined the specific heats for a number of substances (although these heat constants were not recognized or so called until later); on the composition of air; on the nature and properties of a gas that he isolated and described as "inflammable air" and that Lavoisier later named hydrogen ; and on the composition of water, which he demonstrated to consist of oxygen and his "inflammable air." ...