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phlogistications

phlogistications is the plural of phlogistication.

Meaning of phlogistication

Noun

phlogistication (countable and uncountable, plural phlogistications)

  1. (obsolete) The act or process of combining with phlogiston.
    • When [Henry Cavendish] commenced those researches, he found an opinion prevailing, that the production of fixed air, or carbonic acid, is the invariable result of what he called the phlogistication, and we should call the deoxidation, of atmospheric air.1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E., “General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries”, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, page 43

Questions about phlogistications

What is phlogistications the plural of?
Phlogistications is the plural of phlogistication.

Words near phlogistications in the dictionary

  1. phlogisticated
  2. phlogisticated air
  3. phlogisticates
  4. phlogisticating
  5. phlogistication
  6. phlogistications
  7. phlogistick
  8. phlogiston
  9. phlogiston theory
  10. phlogistonic
  11. phlogistonism

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