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antiphlogiston en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + phlogiston.

Meanings

1. (historical) Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
   • Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp. 1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, page 117:
   • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry. 1979, Gerald P Tyson, Joseph Johnson, University of Iowa, page 48:

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