| 单词 | phlogisticated air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphlogisticated air 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. < as lemmas |
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