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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But the phlogistic chemistry was not yet overthrown.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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 Darwin, Erasmus
Whatever will unite with pure air, and thence compose an acid, is esteemed in this ingenious theory to be a different kind of phlogistic or inflammable body.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
The last lecture was taken up chiefly with an account of sthenic diseases, or those depending on too great a degree of excitement, and which have been generally, but improperly, called inflammatory or phlogistic.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
Paracelsus strongly insisted on the importance of the changes which occur when a substance burns, and in doing this he prepared the way for Stahl and the phlogistic chemists.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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