phlogistic
Americanadjective
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pathol of inflammation; inflammatory
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chem of, concerned with, or containing phlogiston
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Etymology
Origin of phlogistic
1725–35; < Greek phlogist ( ós ) inflammable (verbid of phlogízein to set on fire; akin to phlox, phlegm ) + -ic
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That which preserves vegetable bodies so long from dissolution in water, is what may be called the inflammable or phlogistic composition of those bodies.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James
The phlogistic theory did more than serve as a means for bringing together many apparently disconnected facts.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
Stahl, George Ernest, born at Anspach, 27; enunciates the phlogistic theory, 27, 48; his "primordial acid," 174; his essential property of earths, 178.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
He then states the phlogistic interpretation of these phenomena: that combustion is caused by the outrush from the burning body of a something called the principle of fire, or phlogiston.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
At the hands of Stahl and his school, the phlogistic theory, by exhibiting a fundamental similarity between all processes of combustion and by its remarkable flexibility, came to be a general theory of chemical action.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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