antiphlogiston

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ phlogiston.

Adjective

antiphlogiston (comparative more antiphlogiston, superlative most antiphlogiston)

1. (historical) Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
   • 1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, page 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, page 48:

     Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.