antiphlogiston
antiphlogiston adjective: opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
Adjective
antiphlogiston (comparative more antiphlogiston, superlative most antiphlogiston)
- Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
- Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp.1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, page 117
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.1979, Gerald P Tyson, Joseph Johnson, University of Iowa, page 48
Forms of antiphlogiston
| comparative | more antiphlogiston |
|---|---|
| superlative | most antiphlogiston |
Origin of antiphlogiston
From anti- + phlogiston.
Questions about antiphlogiston
- What does antiphlogiston mean?
- Antiphlogiston means opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
- What part of speech is antiphlogiston?
- Antiphlogiston is an adjective.
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