Antiphlogiston
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis. historical
"Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp."
Example
More examples"Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp."
Etymology
From anti- + phlogiston.
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