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Meaning of antiphlogiston | Babel Free

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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