Phlogiston

/flə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɪstɒn/

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[…] 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.

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Stahl argued that phlogiston could explain combustion, a central concern of eighteenth-century chemistry.

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