antiphlogiston
adjEtymology From anti- + phlogiston.
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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: