Meanings
nounphlogistication (countable and uncountable, plural phlogistications)
plural phlogistications
- countableobsoleteuncountablechemistryThe act or process of combining with phlogiston.
When [Henry Cavendish] commenced those researches, he found an opinion prevailing, that the production of fixed air, or carbonic acid, is the invariable result of what he called the phlogistication, and we should call the deoxidation, of atmospheric air.
1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E., “General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries”, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, page 43
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