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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Mr. Cavendish has since demonstrated that two parts of vital air or oxygene, and one part of phlogistic air or azote, being long exposed to electric shocks, unite, and produce nitrous acid.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
I imagine that the effect was produced by those substances, or by the water which they attracted from the air, imbibing the phlogistic matter discharged from the lungs.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
For in phlogistic, as in other things, we cauterize our neighbour's digits, but burn our own fingers.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
But the phlogistic chemistry was not yet overthrown.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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 James Hutton
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