Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlogistons
Literary usage of Phlogistons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century by Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1911)
"The history of our science is the history of such phlogistons. Philology has
its " Aryans," but for which its great achievements in the nineteenth century ..."
2. A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492-1892 by Henry Carrington Bolton (1893)
"... und über die1 wahre neuentdeckte Natur des phlogistons. Uebersetzt und mit
Vorrede versehen von Lorenz Grell. Berlin, 1783-85. 2 vols, in i. ..."
3. Priestley in America, 1794-1804 by Edgar Fahs Smith (1920)
"... carbon is phlogiston, and hydrogen is phlogiston, and azote is phlogiston',
and yet there are not three phlogistons, but one phlogiston! ..."
4. American Medical and Philosophical Register: Or, Annals of Medicine, Natural by John Wakefield Francis (1814)
"... while much phlogistons gas, (inflammable air) and a little metal, formed a
combination peculiarly favourable to ascend into the atmosphere, and, ..."
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