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Meaning of "phlogiston"

phlogiston (noun) - a substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials, now discredited in modern chemistry
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  • The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.

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The discovery of oxygen rendered phlogiston meaningless.
Phlogiston was combustible because it contained heat in latent form.
Published studies on phlogiston and crystallization.
Phlogiston has long since been rejected.
Breathing was thought to take phlogiston out of the body.
He was one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston.
Maybe phlogiston is not given off when a substance is heated.
He concluded that his air must be without phlogiston.
His ideas made the phlogiston theory of combustion obsolete.
He was still hampered by his belief in phlogiston.
Unscientific as phlogiston or vital spirits.
I will bet this one is a phlogiston.
In more modern times the phlogiston theory enjoyed scientific popularity.
An example that many will have heard of is phlogiston.
A general type of phlogiston that increases the quantity of consumption goods produced by given inputs.

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This observation did not bother proponents of the phlogiston theory.
Phlogiston theory states that phlogisticated substances are substances that contain phlogiston and dephlogisticate when burned.
And he believed his inflammable air had to be the mysterious phlogiston.
An Essay on phlogiston and the constitution of acids.
And he applied this approach to investigate the great mystery of phlogiston.
The term phlogiston itself was not something that Stahl invented.
At the end of his life he became a follower of the phlogiston theory.
Phlogiston in the Air.
He concluded that the commonly accepted phlogiston theory was false.
How does phlogiston fit in with pure actuality?
Priestley also described the process of respiration in terms of phlogiston theory.
Essay on Phlogiston.
He had the courage to conclude that this gas had nothing to do with phlogiston.
It HAD to be phlogiston.
Years after Paracelsus that is what chemists tried to do in the theory of phlogiston.
Johann Joachim Becher originates what will become known as phlogiston theory in his Physical Education.
If phlogiston is given off when a substance is heated, it should weigh less.
You can see why Cavendish thought it was phlogiston.
He did maintain the later-discredited phlogiston hypothesis, but was not doctrinaire about it.
Spelljamming ships can not enter the Phlogiston.
Lomonosov also rejected the phlogiston theory, and anticipated the kinetic theory of gases.
Johann Juncer also created a very complete picture of phlogiston.
According to the theory, a substance called phlogiston was released from flammable materials through burning.
Modern chemistry teaches that this is false, there is no such substance as phlogiston.
Even with all its problems, the phlogiston theory remained popular among chemists for many years.
Cavendish, as indicated above, used the language of the old phlogiston theory in chemistry.
By throwing out the Phlogiston theory, Lavoisier paved the way for modern chemistry.
Heating tin and then reweighing it ' revealed a nagging problem with the theory of phlogiston.
Finally, Lavoiser had shown that phlogiston simply did not exist.
Von Crell translated some articles of Richard Kirwan, a supporter of the phlogiston theory.
Experiments relating to Phlogiston and the seeming Conversion of Water into Air ".
Faced with inconsistent experimental results, Priestley employed phlogiston theory.
So, the phlogiston theory is wrong.
So wood must be made up of ash, pure wood, plus phlogiston.
Phlogiston has been discredited?

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