In 1766, Cavendish wrote a paper called “On factitious airs” [11]. He is attributed the discovery of what he called inflammable air, known today as hydrogen. Hydrogen was mainly characterized by its physico-chemical properties in order to study in detail its behavior in combustion reactions. In 1855 Ångström, one of the founders of spectroscopy, published the results of his investigations on the line spectrum of hydrogen.
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