Look up: Phlogiston

1. phlogiston
   [n] - a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
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2. Phlogiston
   A hypothetical elastic fluid which was seen as a metalizing and combustible principle. Metals were seen as the result of combining calces with phlogiston, smelting expelled the phlogiston. See also: Caloric, Ether.
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3. Phlogiston
   Phlo·gis'ton noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... burnt, set on fire, from ... to set on fire, to burn, from ..., ..., a flame, blaze. See Phlox .] (Old Chem.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemic...
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4. phlogiston
   <chemistry> The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. ... This was supposed to be united with combustible (phlogisticated) bodies and to be separated from incombustible (dephlogisticated) bodies, the phenomena of flame and burning being the...
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5. phlogiston
   noun a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
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6. Phlogiston
   • (n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
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7. phlogiston
   in early chemical theory, hypothetical principle of fire, of which every combustible substance was in part composed. In this view, the phenomena of ... [9 related articles]
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8. phlogiston
   phlogiston A hypothetical substance or principle formerly supposed to exist in combination in all combustible bodies, and to be disengaged in the process of combustion; the 'principle of inflammability'; the matter of fire, conceived as fixed in inflammable substances
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9. phlogiston
   Type: Term Pronunciation: flō-jis′tŏn Definitions: 1. A hypothetical substance of negative mass that, according to the theory of G.E. Stahl, was given off by a substance when it underwent combustion, thus accounting for the decrease in mass of the ash over the original substance; aba...
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