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phlogiston
The elementary principle postulated by Georg Stahl to be lost from substances when they burn. The phlogiston concept provided 18-th century chemistry with its unifying principle. The phlogiston theory of combustion found general acceptance until displaced by its inverse – Lavoisier's oxygen theory.
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