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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dephlogisticate . - adjective obsolete, chemistry From which the
phlogiston has been removed
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Examples
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Such expressions as "dephlogisticated" and "phlogisticated" would obviously have little meaning to a generation who were no longer to believe in the existence of phlogiston.
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'dephlogisticated' substance was held to be in its 'true' form, the calx.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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'dephlogisticated' substance was held to be in its 'true' form, the calx.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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'dephlogisticated' substance was held to be in its 'true' form, the calx.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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A gas he would call 'dephlogisticated air' it was the French chemist Lavoisier who named oxygen soon after in his radical shakeup of the naming of chemical substances.
Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010
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A gas he would call 'dephlogisticated air' it was the French chemist Lavoisier who named oxygen soon after in his radical shakeup of the naming of chemical substances.
How oxygen was first discovered in an adventure playground Brian Clegg 2010
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They called it “burnt "or" dephlogisticated air,” which meant air without oxygen.
Nitrogen 2009
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Priestley gave qualitative explanations of these phenomena, talking, for example, about oxygen as "dephlogisticated air."
Priestley, Joseph 2008
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The resulting gas, which he calls “dephlogisticated air,” allows a mouse in a jar to live four times longer than in normal air and become “quite vigorous.”
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Priestley did not, however, go so far as this; he was content to suppose that in some way, which he did not explain, the process of calcination resulted in the loss of phlogiston by the mercury, and the gain, by the dephlogisticated mercury, of the property of yielding exceedingly pure or dephlogisticated air when it was heated very strongly.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
milosrdenstvi commented on the word dephlogisticated
Unoxygenized.
July 13, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word dephlogisticated
'Dephlogisticated air' was Priestley's original name for oxygen.
June 11, 2009
reesetee commented on the word dephlogisticated
See also phlogiston, one of my favorite words to say.
Phlogiston. Phlogiston. Phlogiston.
June 11, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word dephlogisticated
There's also something incredibly satisfying about an '-icated' suffix. Not entirely sure why.
June 11, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word dephlogisticated
I was thinking the "phlogis-" part was the satisfying one.
June 11, 2009
reesetee commented on the word dephlogisticated
Yes, I've always thought that "ph" is far more satisfying than "f." Words don't seem as straight-laced when they're spelled with a ph.
Phührer
phorbidden
phorce
phirearm
phearsome
phamine
See?
June 11, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word dephlogisticated
A kind of chemical spifflicating.
June 11, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word dephlogisticated
Aye, not to disparage the eximious "phlogis-" in any way. Just saying "-icated" is a minipleasure each time.
June 11, 2009
reesetee commented on the word dephlogisticated
It is--which makes this word double the phun. :-)
June 11, 2009
mollusque commented on the word dephlogisticated
So where's your "-icated" list, Milosrdenstvi?
June 12, 2009
reesetee commented on the word dephlogisticated
I should have said "double the phunicated."
June 12, 2009
fidardorist commented on the word dephlogisticated
Reesetee: Alternatively the 'ph' for 'f' misspelling can push a word in the direction it is already inclined to go, as with 'phantasy.'
That is if you can find a sufficient context to at once misspell & simultaneously avoid the cheap incense aroma such a word is in danger of blanketing about itself. Which, you know, you can't. Though one girl did like it when she found that very, quite inadvertent, ph-for-f-ism in something I wrote back in college... But then, youth is so partial as to endow even our errors with charm.
How about a new word, coined by some imaginary youth?
aphorafism: 1) a misspelling, solecism or malapropism, that has an aesthetic something to recommend it. 2) an aspiring neologism.
June 12, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word dephlogisticated
I like this phrase: "avoid the cheap incense aroma such a word is in danger of blanketing about itself."
June 12, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word dephlogisticated
Where is my "-icated"? Are you asking where it is locicated?
Seriously, I don't know what you mean by substanticating that suffication.
June 12, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word dephlogisticated
The next time I see a long s mistaken for an f, I'm going to replace it with a ph.
August 18, 2011
bilby commented on the word dephlogisticated
Yeah, that phucks.
August 19, 2011