antiphlogiston
English
Etymology
From anti- + phlogiston.
Adjective
antiphlogiston (comparative more antiphlogiston, superlative most antiphlogiston)
- (historical) Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
- 1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, p. 117:
- Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp.
- 1979, Gerald P Tyson, Joseph Johnson, University of Iowa, p. 48:
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.
- 1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, p. 117: