phlogiston

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The theory of hearts entering into connubial contracts, is as effete as Stahl's Phlogiston!

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

The first great step taken in the path which led from alchemy to chemistry was the substitution of one Principle, the Principle of Phlogiston, for the three Principles of salt, sulphur, and mercury.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

By these experiments the theory of Phlogiston was destroyed; and with its destruction, the whole alchemical apparatus of Principles and Elements, Essences and Qualities, Souls and Spirits, disappeared.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

Phlogiston might well be another word for soul and we are unkind to the old philosophers to take them too literally.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

Phlogiston, which makes most substances with which it unites liquid as well as mobile and elastic, must have the same effect upon blood.

From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm