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Note 5: For more about the entry of Stahlian chemistry into France, see Rhoda Rappaport, "Rouelle and Stahl — The Phlogistic Revolution in France," Chymia 7 (1961), 73 – 102. back

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Take any quantity of nitre & melt it in a Crucible & take a like quantity of any Body containing a Phlogiston, & while the Nitre is hot throw on little & little the Phlogistic matter till all is thrown on, then weigh the ashes & as much as it has lost of its original weight so much it contain'd of the Phlogiston.

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Boyle, however, was a man whose ideas were in advance of his times, and intervening between the iatro-chemical period and the Age of Modern Chemistry proper came the period of the Phlogistic Theory -- a theory which had a certain affinity with the ideas of the alchemists.

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Note 16: Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fulhame, An Essay on Combustion with a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting Wherein the Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are Proved Erroneous (London, 1794). back

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An Essay on Combustion with a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting Wherein the Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are Proved Erroneous.

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"Rouelle and Stahl - The Phlogistic Revolution in France."

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