Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term applied by the older chemists to certain processes by which they imagined phlogiston, the supposed principle of inflammability, to be separated from bodies.
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- noun chemistry, obsolete The process of
dephlogisticating ; removal of thephlogiston , or supposed ability toburn .
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They termed the principle of fire phlogiston, and burning, or the escape of fire, dephlogistication, and their ingenious system did not a little to retard the progress of truth.
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