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antiphlogiston

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.

historical

Examples

“Jameson had heard the last⟳ dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp.”
“Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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