1. dephlogisticated - Adjective
2. dephlogisticated - Verb
of Dephlogisticcate
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe did not emphasise his discovery of "dephlogisticated air" (leaving it to Part III of the volume) but instead argued in the preface how important such discoveries were to rational religion. Source: Internet
Many investigators had been experimenting with the combination of Henry Cavendish 's inflammable air, which Lavoisier termed hydrogen ( Greek for "water-former"), with dephlogisticated air (oxygen) by electrically sparking mixtures of the gases. Source: Internet
Scheele called the element "dephlogisticated muriatic acid", which is how chlorine was known for 33 years. Source: Internet
He showed that this residual air supported neither combustion nor respiration and that approximately five volumes of this air added to one volume of the dephlogisticated air gave common atmospheric air. Source: Internet
In addition to studying Priestley's dephlogisticated air, he studied more thoroughly the residual air after metals had been calcined. Source: Internet