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Meaning of phlogistication | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The act or process of combining with phlogiston.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Français phlogistication

Examples

“When [Henry Cavendish] commenced those researches, he found an opinion prevailing, that the production of fixed air, or carbonic acid, is the invariable result⟳ of what he called the phlogistication, and we should call⟳ the deoxidation, of atmospheric air.”

CEFR level

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

phlogiston phlogiston theory phlogistonism phlogistonist phlogopite phlogopitization

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