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Supposed fire-like element contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion, according to superseded scientific theories of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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When America was a new country, people believed in something called phlogiston.
The Lost World
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Also, the phlogiston has negative weight, as every school child must know.
The Sky Is Falling
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It was spreading, apparently just under the phlogiston layer, reflecting back the glare.
The Sky Is Falling
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The diamond and charcoal of copper are, as nearly as possible, pure phlogiston.
Priestley in America, 1794-1804
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On this principle, then, the metals were compound bodies, earths combined with phlogiston.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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Later it was held that phlogiston, or fire substance, escaped from materials when they burned.
The Tyranny Of Words
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And phlogiston will quench the flame of a rocket, as your expert von Braun discovered.
The Sky Is Falling
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For see you, the upper air is filled with phlogiston, which no man can breathe.
The Sky Is Falling
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Blood gives out phlogiston and receives vital air.
The Botanic Garden / A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of...
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Plants were thought to remove phlogiston from the air and therefore burned when they were dry.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
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Now suppose them to sweat in those confined quarters their fat away, their phlogiston, their caloric.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
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By the late eighteenth century the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier had replaced phlogiston theory with caloric theory.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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At first the phlogiston theory seemed to explain in an indisputable way all the known chemical phenomena.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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Joseph Priestley, the courageous Unitarian and skeptic who discovered oxygen, was a believer in the phlogiston theory.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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He threw out phlogiston and mephitic airs.
A short history of nearly everything
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His explanations of chemical phenomena were based on the phlogiston theory, in which, like Priestley, he always, believed.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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