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phlogiston Chem. (fləʊˈdʒɪstən, -ˈgɪstən) [mod.L., a. Gr. ϕλογιστόν, neuter of ϕλογιστός burnt up, inflammable, vbl. adj. from ϕλογίζ-ειν to set on fire, f. ϕλόξ, ϕλογ- flame, ablaut deriv. of ϕλεγ-, root of ϕλέγ-ειν to burn.] A hypothetical substance or ‘principle’ formerly supposed to exist in com...
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Jean Pierre Chardenon
He interpreted the weight increase of metals upon calcination in 1762 as being due to the loss of phlogiston and used the analogy of a fishnet being buoyed Once the corks were lost, just like phlogiston, the fishnet would become heavy, he claimed.
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phlogistian
phlogistian (fləʊˈdʒɪstɪən) [f. phlogiston + -ian.] A believer in the existence or theory of phlogiston.1799 Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. 67 The phlogistians were obliged to consider all combustible bodies as combinations of different..substances with the undemonstrated phlogi...
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Johann Friedrich Meyer
Johann Friedrich Meyer (24 October 1705 – 2 November 1765) was a Thuringian chemist and pharmacist who ardently supported the phlogiston theory even after He said phlogiston converted calxes into metals while acidum pingue calcined metals (CaCO3 + "acidum pinque" -> CaO).
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phlogistic
phlogistic, a. (n.) (fləʊˈdʒɪstɪk, -ˈgɪstɪk) [In sense 1, mod. f. phlogiston: cf. mod.L. phlogisticus, F. phlogistique (1762 in Dict. Acad.); in senses 2, 3, immediately f. Gr. ϕλογιστ-ός inflammable, inflamed + -ic.] I. 1. Chem. Of the nature of or consisting of phlogiston; † containing phlogiston,...
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Richard Lubbock
Lubbock noted that his teacher Joseph Black taught phlogiston theory, despite having lost confidence in its soundness. Lubbock also examined if "phlogiston" was involved in the gravitational force.
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Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren
Gren was a major proponent in regards to the existence of phlogiston. After Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) demonstrated that combustion required oxygen, he compromised his beliefs, and postulated that oxygen and phlogiston
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Calx
According to the obsolete phlogiston theory, the calx was the true elemental substance that was left after phlogiston was driven out of it in the process
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Georg Ernst Stahl
Phlogiston theory did not have any experimental basis before Stahl worked with metals and various other substances in order separate phlogiston from them Stahl proposed that metals were made of calx, or ash, and phlogiston and that once a metal is heated, the phlogiston leaves only the calx within the substance
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Further study of this reaction later led to Scheele's discovery of oxygen (see "The theory of phlogiston" below). Although Scheele would always believe in some form of the phlogiston theory, his work reduced phlogiston to an unusually simple form, complicated only
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TIM-001
Dušan Hristović: Razvoj računarstva u Srbiji (Computing in Serbia), Phlogiston journal, No 18/19, pp. 89-105, Museum MNT-SANU, Belgrade 2010/2011.
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Costanzo Benedetto Bonvicino
He was also among the early Italian chemists to criticize the phlogiston theory.
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Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell
Crell was involved in the sometimes harsh discussion about the phlogiston theory. Von Crell translated some articles of Richard Kirwan, a supporter of the phlogiston theory.
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Marsilio Landriani
Guyton de Morveau and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier tried to convince Landriani to change over to the new chemistry, but he never was able to decide between phlogiston
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