Definitions for phlogiston

phlogiston phlo·gis·ton

Spelling: [floh-jis-ton, -tuh n]
IPA: /floʊˈdʒɪs tɒn, -tən/

Phlogiston is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 603 anagrams from letters in phlogiston (ghilnoopst).

Definitions for phlogiston

noun

  1. a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.

Origin of phlogiston

1720-30; New Latin: inflammability, noun use of Greek phlogistón, neuter of phlogistós inflammable, burnt up; see phlogistic

Examples for phlogiston

I should have sent you my Defence of phlogiston, but that I presume you have seen it.

Phosphorus then must consist, say the Stahlians, of phlogiston and this acid.

What is this but common air completely deprived of phlogiston?

He thought they were "compounded" of a certain earth, or calx, and phlogiston.

"phlogiston" and "vortices" had their day and are forgotten.

It was phlogiston and that only which occasioned the electric current.

Coal, for example, was thought to be very rich in phlogiston.

But how is such a restoration of phlogiston to be accomplished?

Metals then were regarded as compounds of calces and phlogiston.

When a substance burns, phlogiston, it was said, rushes out of it.

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