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Значения термина phlogiston theory на английском

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Supposed fire-like element contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion, according to superseded scientific theories of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Examples for "phlogiston"
Examples for "phlogiston"
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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
Использование термина phlogiston theory на английском
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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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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.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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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.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. / A Weekly Jou...
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See The Phlogiston Theory, Vol, IV.
A History of Science — Volume 2
Translations for phlogiston theory
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