antiphlogiston
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anti- + phlogiston.
Adjective
[edit]antiphlogiston (comparative more antiphlogiston, superlative most antiphlogiston)
- (historical) Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
- 1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, page 117:
- Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp.
- 1979, Gerald P Tyson, Joseph Johnson, University of Iowa, page 48:
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.