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Supposed fire-like element contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion, according to superseded scientific theories of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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      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
      2
      At first the phlogiston theory seemed to explain in an indisputable way all the known chemical phenomena.
      A History of Science — Volume 4
      3
      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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      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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      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.
      A History of Science — Volume 4
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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.
      A History of Science — Volume 4
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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.
      A History of Science — Volume 2