单词 | phlogiston |
释义 | phlogiston (once / 22556 pages) n WORD FAMILY phlogiston: phlogistons USAGE EXAMPLESCharacters are equipped with a “lilium orb”, a piece of applied phlogiston which arrays bonuses to their character statistics along a spider-web pattern. Forbes(Aug 07, 2013) This reproduction is due, according to the phlogistic chemists, to the giving back, by carbon, of the phlogiston which had escaped during the burning. Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison), Heroes of Science—Chemists(2011) Thus we say that the union of phlogiston to a particular kind of earth is the cause of its becoming a metal. Priestley, Joseph, Heads of Lectures on a Course of Ex...(2011) n a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning Hyper substance the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists |
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