Phlogistic is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 472 anagrams from letters in phlogistic (cghiilopst).
1725-35; Greek phlogist(ós) inflammable (verbid of phlogízein to set on fire; akin to phlox, phlegm) + -ic
It will be seen from this that the phlogistic theory was a step towards chemistry and away from alchemy.
During the phlogistic period, the detection of the constituents of compounds was considerably developed.
Associated words: phlogistic, phlogogenous, antiphlogistic, demulcent delitescence.
The phlogistic theory was destroyed by its own cumbersomeness.
The phlogistic theory did more than serve as a means for bringing together many apparently disconnected facts.
May not this phlogistic matter be even the most essential part of the food and support of both vegetable and animal bodies?
It thus happened that in the earlier treatises on phlogistic chemistry organic substances were grouped with all combustibles.
The theory advocated by Lavoisier came to displace the phlogistic conception; but at first its acceptance was slow.
The weak point of the phlogistic theory was its practical disregard of the phenomena of weight.
In the seventeenth century, Beccher and Stahl, two German chemists, brought forward what is known as the phlogistic hypothesis.
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