phlogiston

How To Use phlogiston In A Sentence

• I mean, wouldn't it be dumb for a researcher to spend valuable time and funding seeking phlogiston when his governing theoretic needs no such 'stuff' to explain combustion and he doesn't believe it exists? Behe's Test
• And combustion, as they understood it, happened when phlogiston, a hypothetical earthlike substance characterized mainly by its combustibility, was removed from an object.
• The best examples of this are found in explorations of manufactured colors. reference Even without widespread acceptance of new theories in chemistry — assumptions about elements, or measurement, or phlogiston-based theories of coloration — the focus on colormaking as a chemical operation grew during the eighteenth century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• Principle, which he named _Phlogiston_, and constructed an hypothesis which is generally known as the phlogistic theory. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
• Biologists used to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, chemists in phlogiston, physicists in absolute (pre-relativity) time.
• Not to boast, but my PHLOGISTON theory includes a super-partner, SPHLOGISTON, whereby sparticles may combust in compactified dimensions. Making Extra Dimensions Disappear
• The calx combines with a flux containing phlogiston-rich materials.
• The reason a metal formed when its calx was heated with charcoal was therefore because the phlogiston left the charcoal and united with the calx.
• Hence it appeared that common air consists, to the extent of four-fifths of its volume, of air which is already "phlogisticated"; while the other fifth is free from phlogiston, or "dephlogisticated. Science & Education
• Arguing thus, Priestley, of course, named the new aeriform substance _dephlogisticated air_, and thought of it as ordinary air deprived of some, or it might be all, of its phlogiston. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry