phlogiston

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning. historical,uncountable,usually
    — […] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston[…] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.

词形变化

phlogistons plural

词源

From New Latin phlogiston, coined by Georg Ernst Stahl in 1702, from Ancient Greek φλογιστόν (phlogistón), neuter of φλογιστός (phlogistós, “burnt up, inflammable”), from φλογίζω (phlogízō, “to set fire to”), from φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).
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