phlogistic
Americanadjective
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pathol of inflammation; inflammatory
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chem of, concerned with, or containing phlogiston
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of phlogistic
1725–35; < Greek phlogist ( ós ) inflammable (verbid of phlogízein to set on fire; akin to phlox, phlegm ) + -ic
Example Sentences
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The phlogistic theory, which had tyrannized over chemistry, had been succeeded by the Lavoisierian chemistry, which recognized one acidifier, and this also the one supporter of combustion.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
Chemistry existed at first only in a childish, phlogistic form.
From Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy by Austin Lewis
This reproduction is due, according to the phlogistic chemists, to the giving back, by carbon, of the phlogiston which had escaped during the burning.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
But the phlogistic chemistry was not yet overthrown.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
Respect the character of your auditors; and, above all things, have mercy upon the phlogistic imagination of Lisardo!
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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