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phlogistons

phlogistons is the plural of phlogiston.

Meaning of phlogiston

Noun

phlogiston (usually uncountable, plural phlogistons)

  1. (historical, usually) The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.
    • […] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston[…] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.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 39

Questions about phlogistons

What is phlogistons the plural of?
Phlogistons is the plural of phlogiston.

Words near phlogistons in the dictionary

  1. phlogiston theory
  2. phlogistonic
  3. phlogistonism
  4. phlogistonist
  5. phlogistonists
  6. phlogistons
  7. phlogogenetic
  8. phlogogenic
  9. phlogogenous
  10. phlogopite
  11. phlogopites

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