Phlogiston in a sentence

The following paragraph describes Stahl's view of phlogiston well: To Stahl, metals were compounds containing phlogiston in combination with metallic oxides (calces); on ignition the phlogiston was freed from the metal leaving the oxide behind.

In 1783 he read to the academy his famous paper entitled Réflexions sur le phlogistique (Reflections on Phlogiston), a full-scale attack on the current phlogiston theory of combustion.

Indeed, one of the first clues that the phlogiston theory was incorrect was that metals gain weight in rusting (when they were supposedly losing phlogiston).

In general, substances that burned in air were said to be rich in phlogiston; the fact that combustion soon ceased in an enclosed space was taken as clear-cut evidence that air had the capacity to absorb only a finite amount of phlogiston.

The Phlogiston The phlogiston is essentially a big ocean of a unique element that is neither air, fire, water, or earth.

When the oxide was heated with a substance rich in phlogiston, such as charcoal, the calx again took up phlogiston and regenerated the metal.

According to Stahl, phlogiston was a substance that was not able to be put into a bottle, but could be transferred nonetheless.

According to that 18th-century theory, the combustion or oxidation of a substance corresponded to the release of a material substance, phlogiston.

Also, the theory that phlogiston is a substance released from burning and rusting material was eliminated with the new understanding of the reactivity of oxygen.

As a result of this stimulating intellectual environment, he published several important scientific papers, including "Experiments relating to Phlogiston, and the seeming Conversion of Water into Air" (1783).

Breathing was thought to take phlogiston out of the body.

Ch. 26. The term phlogiston itself was not something that Stahl invented.

Dismantling phlogiston theory Lavoisier's chemical research between 1772 and 1778 was largely concerned with developing his own new theory of combustion.

Emsley 2001, p.299 This may have been in part due to the prevalence of the philosophy of combustion and corrosion called the phlogiston theory, which was then the favored explanation of those processes.

Every crystal sphere floats in the phlogiston, very slowly bobbing up and down over time.

Existing theories before Scheele By the time he was a teenager, Scheele had learned the dominant theory of gases which in the 1770s was the phlogiston theory.

Experienced chemists who supported Stahl's phlogiston theory attempted to respond to the challenges suggested by Lavoisier and the newer chemists.

Further study of this reaction later led to Scheele's discovery of oxygen (see "The theory of phlogiston" below).

Growing plants then absorb this phlogiston, which is why air does not spontaneously combust and also why plant matter burns as well as it does.

Guillaume-Francois Rouelle brought the theory of phlogiston to France, and he was a very influential scientist and teacher so it gained quite a strong foothold very quickly.