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Phlogiston

noun
1.
A hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning.





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... Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh University, had a gruff old man as his porter, a James Alston. 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 ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown


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