It [air] was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston, […]
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Phlogistian
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Bryan Higgins was a "phlogistian", while William, correctly as it turned out, didn't believe in the concept.
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In Davy's time it was still necessary in considering any novel fact to keep the phlogistian hypothesis in view, and to demonstrate its inability to explain the new discoveries.
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