dephlogisticated air

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Singular
dephlogisticated air

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dephlogisticated air (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) Oxygen.
    • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 30:
      Priestley never swayed from his firm conviction in the phlogiston theory as long as he lived, and he called his new gas ‘dephlogisticated air’.
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