phlogiston

n.

（旧时人们人们认为存在于可燃物中的）燃素，热素；

1. A thing was inflammable if it contained phlogiston.
   一样东西如果含有燃素，它就能燃烧。

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Lactic Acid and the Phlogiston Debt
The Overthrow of the phlogiston theory :
Farewell to the Phlogiston Theory of Conditionals
We Have Never Been Whiggish (About Phlogiston)
Rekindling Phlogiston: From Classroom Case Study to Interdisciplinary Relationships
A Twentieth-Century Phlogiston: Constructing Error and Differentiating Domains
Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston? Research programmes in the chemical revolution
The Hidden History of Phlogiston: How Philosophical Failure Can Generate Historiographical Refinement
Structural realism versus standard scientific realism: the case of phlogiston and dephlogisticated air
Method and appraisal in the physical sciences: Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston? Research programmes in the Chemical Revolution