单词 | phlogisticated |
释义 | phlogisticatedadj. Chemistry. Now historical. Combined with phlogiston.Earliest in phlogisticated air ( Compounds). ΚΠ 1774 J. Priestley Exper. & Observ. Air I. 178 (note) It might not be amiss to call air that has been..made noxious by any of the processes above mentioned..by the common appellation of phlogisticated air. 1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 378 A solution of silver is not precipitated by iron in cold, unless it have a superabundance of phlogisticated acid. 1895 Littell's Living Age 30 Mar. 818/2 The discovery of the nature of the chemical elements led to the naming of the phlogisticated part of the air. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 189 The essence of that theory was the view that when a combustible body, a phlogisticated body, underwent combustion, phlogiston departed from it; the body suffered a loss, it became dephlogisticated. 1976 Proc. Biennial Meeting Philos. of Sci. Assoc. 1974 243 The supposed laws governing phlogisticated bodies turned out not to be laws after all. 1981 Jrnl. Philos. 78 81 Construe being highly phlogisticated and being dephlogisticated as functional states defined by certain syndromes of causal dispositions. Compounds phlogisticated air n. now historical air which does not sustain combustion, supposedly through being combined with phlogiston; (in modern terms) air lacking oxygen and therefore consisting chiefly of nitrogen. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > phlogiston > nitrogen in the phlogistic theory phlogisticated air1774 1774Phlogisticated air [see main sense]. 1800 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters 160 Almost entirely phlogisticated air, or, as it is now termed, azotic gas. 1874 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 6) 325 Priestley..was led to believe that water was convertible into nitrogen (phlogisticated air). 1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. ii. 83 When the air became saturated, or ‘phlogisticated air’, combustion ceased. ΚΠ 1778 J. Aikin tr. A. Beaumé Man. Chem. 165 (heading) Phlogisticated alkali. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 487 Prussian, or Prussiated alkali, formerly called the phlogisticated alkali, is an alkali united to a particular tinging substance by the intermediation of iron, calcined. 1853 A. Ure Dict. of Arts, Manufactures, & Mines 501 The phlogisticated alkali of Scheele. ΚΠ 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. ii. i Azot in its elastic form constitutes..phlogisticated gas. 1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. 532 If they [sc. animal substances] are altered by putrefaction, they furnish fixed air mixed with the phlogisticated gas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1774 |
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