dephlogisticated

• Later in the century, Joseph Priestley (1733 1804) became one of the dis¬coverers of dephlogisticated air, or oxygen. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Their first two albums were mentioned by dephlogisticated above, but their third one (entitled Third) was released only a year back and is just unbelievable. —  Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
• [7 Priestley obtained the same sort of air from red lead, but, as he says himself, he remained in ignorance of the properties of this new kind of air for seven months, or until March 1775, when he found that the new air behaved with "nitrous gas" in the same way as the dephlogisticated part of common air does; [8] but that, instead of being diminished to four-fifths, it almost completely vanished, and, therefore, showed itself to be "between five and six times as good as the best common air I have ever met with." —  Science ; Education
• When their talk was not of dephlogisticated air and like matters it was pretty certain to be political. —  The Bibliotaph and Other People
• The discovery of nitrous and dephlogisticated airs. —  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

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