Meaning of phlogistication | Babel Free

Definitions

The act or process of combining with phlogiston.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

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.”

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