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单词 dephlogisticated
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Definition of dephlogisticated in English:

dephlogisticated

adjectiveˌdiːfləˈdʒɪstɪkeɪtɪdˌdēfləˈjistəkādəd
Chemistry historical
  • Deprived of ‘phlogiston’. Oxygen was originally called dephlogisticated air by Joseph Priestley.

    〔化〕〈史〉脱燃素的,去燃素的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Burn a log in the fireplace, air carries off the phlogiston, and the dephlogisticated log reveals itself as a pile of ashes.
    • Priestley's ‘discovery’ of dephlogisticated air was later reformulated into part of the discovery of oxygen by French aristocrat and polymath Antoine Lavoisier.
    • Lavoisier's colleague Claude Berthollet therefore proposed that Scheele's dephlogisticated muratic acid gas must be a combination of oxygen and an undiscovered element, muriaticum.
    • When informed by Priestley about dephlogisticated air, Lavosier repeated the experiments quantitatively.
    • After other attempts to release oxygen failed, Davy concluded that dephlogisticated muriatic acid gas was actually an element rather that a compound with oxygen.

Definition of dephlogisticated in US English:

dephlogisticated

adjectiveˌdēfləˈjistəkādəd
Chemistry historical
  • Deprived of “phlogiston.” Oxygen was originally called dephlogisticated air by Joseph Priestley.

    〔化〕〈史〉脱燃素的,去燃素的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Burn a log in the fireplace, air carries off the phlogiston, and the dephlogisticated log reveals itself as a pile of ashes.
    • Priestley's ‘discovery’ of dephlogisticated air was later reformulated into part of the discovery of oxygen by French aristocrat and polymath Antoine Lavoisier.
    • After other attempts to release oxygen failed, Davy concluded that dephlogisticated muriatic acid gas was actually an element rather that a compound with oxygen.
    • When informed by Priestley about dephlogisticated air, Lavosier repeated the experiments quantitatively.
    • Lavoisier's colleague Claude Berthollet therefore proposed that Scheele's dephlogisticated muratic acid gas must be a combination of oxygen and an undiscovered element, muriaticum.
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