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Cavendish experiment
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Cavendish experiment

Measurement of the gravitational attraction between large and small lead spheres, which enabled English physicist and chemist Henry Cavendish to calculate in 1798 a mean value for the mass and density of Earth, using Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation.



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