Phlogiston

(noun.) a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning.

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• Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• These discoveries were made by Scheele in his endeavours to find in light the source of phlogiston--that _ignis fatuus_ of the chemists of the last century. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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