• Question: in research,who was the first person to discover water?

    Asked by katie to Philip, Maxime, Jake, Ann, Annette, Amy Heather on 12 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by JamesDman.
    • Photo: Philip Schuler

      Philip Schuler answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Good question – I think many aspects about water, it’s chemical composition of oxygen, hydogen, isotopes, etc. have been discovered progressively in the past. I don’t think there was a single moment of someone discovering water really

    • Photo: Amy Heather Fitzpatrick

      Amy Heather Fitzpatrick answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      John Cavendish as an English scientist who discovered that hydrogen atoms make up part of the water molecule in the 1700s

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