phlogiston

1 After over 30 years of “intellectual regress”, the study of booms and busts now reminds him of a lipstick-wearing pig or an obsolete scientific embarrassment like the phlogiston theory of fire.

2 It is probable, therefore, that burned air is air so far loaded with phlogiston, as to be able to extinguish a candle, which it may do long before it is fully saturated.

3 Metallizable earths, commonly called ores, when united to phlogiston, make the metals, distinguishable for their specific gravity, their opacity, shining appearance, and fusibility.

4 Characters are equipped with a “lilium orb”, a piece of applied phlogiston which arrays bonuses to their character statistics along a spider-web pattern.

5 The violence or completeness of combustion was proportional to the amount of phlogiston present.

6 Thus, about the year 1784-85, the theory of phlogiston appeared to be quite overthrown.

7 For the rest of that century, and for the greater part of the next, philosophers stumbled about in darkness, misled for most of the time by the phantom conception which they called phlogiston.

8 Now, if this air penetrates into plants, these must attract the phlogiston, and consequently the acid, which manifests itself as aerial acid, must be produced.

9 He thought that the air was in the first instance rendered noxious by being impregnated with phlogiston, and that the plant restored the air by removing this phlogiston.

10 The antiphlogistic chemists regarded fixed air as composed of carbon and dephlogisticated air; the phlogisteans said it was a substance highly charged with phlogiston.

11 And they answered as triumphantly, Because these metals lose phlogiston by this process, and we know that a calx is a metal deprived of its phlogiston.

12 James was one of the old school of chemistry, and held by phlogiston, but for no better reason than the endless trouble the new-fangled discoveries brought upon him in the way of apparatus.

13 It is less capable of concentration than the vitriolic or nitrous acids, perhaps from a more intimate union of phlogiston with it.

14 Lavoisier didn’t think that Priestley was right about phlogiston, prompting a long-running battle.

15 It consists of acid and water combined with phlogiston.

16 This treats fully the subject of the phlogiston theory and its influence in the development of chemistry.

17 "Phlogiston theory," this erroneous conception of burning, LED chemistry along a completely false trail.

这个莫名其妙的“燃素论”，对燃烧做了错误的理解，把化学扯上了一条完全错误道路。

18 A popular account of the development of the phlogiston theory from alchemy, giving explanations of the curious beliefs and methods of working of the alchemists.

19 It is not that there are any very staggering arguments against the immortality of man, but, like electricity, phlogiston, &c., the subject is so involved in darkness that we want data to go upon.’

20 Others believe that earth and phlogiston are the things from which all material nature has derived its origin.

1 燃素

phlogistic

2 热素

phlogistic caloric