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発音

• IPA: /flə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɪstɒn/, /flə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɪstən/

名詞

phlogiston (usually uncountable, plural phlogistons)

1. (chemistry, historical) The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.
   • 1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E., “General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries”, in The Life of the Hon Henry Cavendish, page 39:

     […] 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.

   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, page 397:

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

派生語

Further reading

• phlogiston theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• postholing