Phlogistic Definition

Phlogistic Sentence Examples

• Had this not been the case he could scarcely have remained a firm believer in the phlogistic doctrine.

• This theory, named the phlogistic theory,.

• At the hands of Stahl and his school, the phlogistic theory, by exhibiting a fundamental similarity between all processes of combustion and by its remarkable flexibility, came to be a general theory of chemical action.

• Lavoisier adequately recognized and acknowledged how much he owed to the researches of others; to himself is due the co-ordination of these researches, and the welding of his results into a doctrine to which the phlogistic theory ultimately succumbed.

• The theory advocated by Lavoisier came to displace the phlogistic conception; but at first its acceptance was slow.