phlogiston

"Our world and all these other things are inside, while outside is some kind of a nothing called phlogiston."

When America was a new country, people believed in something called phlogiston.

This all makes far more sense, and it also explains why phlogiston wasn't such a silly idea.

Could be it's something like the mythical phlogiston, I suppose.

I was pure phlogiston, an imaginary element of long ago.

"In other words something like the theory of phlogiston."

It must do: you could see the phlogiston coming out as flames, for goodness' sake.

Am I in trouble for denying the phlogiston theory?

He concluded that the commonly accepted phlogiston theory was false.

The idea was that phlogiston causes things to burn, reducing them to their pure form.

Since past scientific theories have invariably proved false - phlogiston, anyone?

According to that theory, phlogiston is emitted from substances when they are burnt.

Crell was involved in the sometimes harsh discussion about the phlogiston theory.

Cavendish, as indicated above, used the language of the old phlogiston theory in chemistry.

In the early 1800's, Phlogiston theory was the dominant model for explaining chemical phenomena.

"Phlogiston was a pre-19th-century explanation for why things burned," Piercy replied.

It is as dead as phlogiston and the universal aether.

No doubt one of the phlogiston deframmulators had merely changed polarity.

At the start of the book, we mentioned phlogiston, considered by early chemists to be the substance that made things burn.

Gren was a major proponent in regards to the existence of phlogiston.

Every crystal sphere floats in the phlogiston, very slowly bobbing up and down over time.

He was one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston.

One exception is the 'phlogiston' of the Spelljammer setting.

Although many of his results puzzled him, Priestley used phlogiston theory to resolve the difficulties.

"People said things burned because they contained phlogiston.