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Thus we say that the union of phlogiston to a particular kind of earth is the cause of its becoming a metal.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYIt dissolves many substances containing phlogiston, as iron, dry flesh, &c. and thereby forms a little inflammable air.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYThese facts shew that alkaline air consists chiefly of phlogiston.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYThe nitrous acid unites with phlogiston, alkalis, metallic substances, and calcareous earth.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYIt is less capable of concentration than the vitriolic or nitrous acids, perhaps from a more intimate union of phlogiston with it.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYThis metal readily parts with its phlogiston, so as to be very subject to calcine, or rust, by exposure to the air.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYIn consequence of its readily parting with its phlogiston, it is capable of burning, like wood or other fuel, in pure air.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYDuring the solution the phlogiston of the tin uniting with the acid, forms sulphur, which makes it turbid.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYAlso, if diamond powder be triturated with vitriolic acid, it turns it black, which is another proof of its containing phlogiston.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEYOthers believe that earth and phlogiston are the things from which all material nature has derived its origin.
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WORDS RELATED TO PHLOGISTON
- blaze
- bonfire
- campfire
- charring
- coals
- combustion
- conflagration
- devouring
- element
- embers
- flame and smoke
- flames
- flare
- glow
- hearth
- heat
- holocaust
- hot spot
- incandescence
- inferno
- luminosity
- oxidation
- phlogiston
- pyre
- rapid oxidation
- scintillation
- scorching
- sea of flames
- searing
- sparks
- tinder
- up in smoke
- warmth
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.