Log in or Sign up
dephlogisticated air love

dephlogisticated air

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry, historical Oxygen, as originally thought to be air deprived of phlogiston.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dephlogisticated air.

Examples

    Sorry, no example sentences found.

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • milosrdenstvi commented on the word dephlogisticated air

    I don't think this one is actually Lavoisier, but another really cool term from the same early-modern-chemistry course I took. It was the original term for oxygen (contrary to my original assertion on dephlogisticated), because of the current scientific theory of phlogiston, a substance the combination with which would produce fire. Pure oxygen supports combustion better than normal air; thus it was supposed to have more capacity to combine with phlogiston, and naturally this would be because it didn't have any in the first place.

    April 9, 2010