Definition of dephlogisticated in English:
dephlogisticated
adjectiveˌdiːfləˈdʒɪstɪkeɪtɪdˌdēfləˈjistəkādəd
Chemistry historical Deprived of ‘phlogiston’. Oxygen was originally called dephlogisticated air by Joseph Priestley.
Example sentencesExamples
- Burn a log in the fireplace, air carries off the phlogiston, and the dephlogisticated log reveals itself as a pile of ashes.
- Priestley's ‘discovery’ of dephlogisticated air was later reformulated into part of the discovery of oxygen by French aristocrat and polymath Antoine Lavoisier.
- Lavoisier's colleague Claude Berthollet therefore proposed that Scheele's dephlogisticated muratic acid gas must be a combination of oxygen and an undiscovered element, muriaticum.
- When informed by Priestley about dephlogisticated air, Lavosier repeated the experiments quantitatively.
- After other attempts to release oxygen failed, Davy concluded that dephlogisticated muriatic acid gas was actually an element rather that a compound with oxygen.
Definition of dephlogisticated in US English:
dephlogisticated
adjectiveˌdēfləˈjistəkādəd
Chemistry historical Deprived of “phlogiston.” Oxygen was originally called dephlogisticated air by Joseph Priestley.
Example sentencesExamples
- Burn a log in the fireplace, air carries off the phlogiston, and the dephlogisticated log reveals itself as a pile of ashes.
- Priestley's ‘discovery’ of dephlogisticated air was later reformulated into part of the discovery of oxygen by French aristocrat and polymath Antoine Lavoisier.
- After other attempts to release oxygen failed, Davy concluded that dephlogisticated muriatic acid gas was actually an element rather that a compound with oxygen.
- When informed by Priestley about dephlogisticated air, Lavosier repeated the experiments quantitatively.
- Lavoisier's colleague Claude Berthollet therefore proposed that Scheele's dephlogisticated muratic acid gas must be a combination of oxygen and an undiscovered element, muriaticum.