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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When it extinguishes flame, it is probably so much charged with the phlogistic matter, as to take no more from a burning candle, which must, therefore, necessarily go out in it.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
The theory advocated by Lavoisier came to displace the phlogistic conception; but at first its acceptance was slow.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
Its supporters disagreed among themselves, first as to the explanation of certain phenomena that did not seem to accord with the phlogistic theory, and a little later as to the theory itself.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith
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 Priestley, Joseph
According to the phlogistic theory, the part remaining after a substance was burned was simply the original substance deprived of phlogiston.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith
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