单词 | phlogistonist |
释义 | phlogistonistn. History of Science. A believer in the theory of phlogiston. ΚΠ 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 847 Within the field of names it should only comprehend what Stahl and the phlogistonists understand by them. 1925 Glasgow Herald 30 Jan. 5 The second fact neglected by the phlogistonists was that a substance will not burn in absence of air, and only to a limited extent in an enclosed space. 1988 New Scientist 22 Oct. 77/4 If one regards phlogiston as a rather vague qualitative 18th-century idea of energy, much of what phlogistonists wrote would still be regarded as true. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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