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Meanings of phlogiston theory in English

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флогистон
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teoria do flogisto
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teoría del flogisto
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flogist

Supposed fire-like element contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion, according to superseded scientific theories of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Usage of phlogiston theory in English
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By the late eighteenth century the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier had replaced phlogiston theory with caloric theory.
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At first the phlogiston theory seemed to explain in an indisputable way all the known chemical phenomena.
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Joseph Priestley, the courageous Unitarian and skeptic who discovered oxygen, was a believer in the phlogiston theory.
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His explanations of chemical phenomena were based on the phlogiston theory, in which, like Priestley, he always, believed.
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In 1771 he gave the first blow to the phlogiston theory by his experiments on the calcination of metals.
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The discovery of oxygen was the last but most important blow to the tottering phlogiston theory, though Priestley himself would not admit it.
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This was the final blow to the phlogiston theory, which, although it had been tottering for some time, had not been completely overthrown.
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He did much to overthrow the phlogiston theory, which was universally accepted in his time; and his researches upon arsenic were of the highest importance.
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See The Phlogiston Theory, Vol, IV.
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