Phlogiston

Definition: Phlogiston

Phlogiston

Noun

1. A hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning.

Date "phlogiston" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Etymology: Phlogiston \Phlo*gis"ton\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression burnt, set on fire, from to set on fire, to burn, from flame, blaze. See Phlox.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Phlogiston

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Phlogiston The principle or element of heat, according to Stahl. When latent the effect is imperceptible, but when operative it produces all the effects of heat from warmth to combustion. Of course, this theory has long been exploded. (Greek, phlogiston, inflammable.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Phlogiston

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heat	Phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Phlogiston

English words defined with "phlogiston": Antiphlogistian, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier ♦ Dephlogisticcate ♦ Lavoisier ♦ Phlogistian, Phlogistic, Phlogisticate, Phlogistication ♦ Semiphlogisticated, Stahlian. (references)

Etymologies containing "phlogiston": Aphlogistic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Phlogiston

Domain	Title
Books	Chemistry Transformed: The Paradigmatic Shift from Phlogiston to Oxygen (Modern Sociology) (reference) Historical Studies on the Phlogiston Theory (The Development of Science) (reference) Phlogiston -- Chaplet 4.4 From Tom Brown's Fire Book [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Phlogiston oder Sauerstoff : die pharmazeutische Chemie in Deutschland zur Zeit des Übergangs von der Phlogiston- zur Oxidationstheorie (reference) The History of the Phlogiston Theory (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Phlogiston

"Phlogiston" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Phlogiston" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.3%	26	68,323
Noun (proper)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Phlogiston

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
phlogiston	10
conservation law mass phlogiston	3
phlogiston verdigris	3
phlogiston theory	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Phlogiston

Language		Translations for "phlogiston"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		flogjiston. (various references)

Arabic		‏اللاهوب مادة كيميائية. (various references)

Bulgarian		флогистон. (various references)

Hungarian		flogiszton. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		フロギストン説 (airy, booing, booster, booth, bouquet, bouquet garni, CFC, cheese, chlorofluorohydrocarbon, FEP, floppy, floppy disk, Florida, florigen, florist, fluke, fluon gas, fluorocarbon, Freon, frock, frock coat, frog, frogman, front, front office, front page, front wheel drive, front-end, front-end processor, frontier, frontier spirit, frost, light, phlogiston theory, windscreen, windshield). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		フロギストンせつ (phlogiston theory). (various references)

Pig Latin		ogistonphlay

Portuguese		flogístico. (various references)

Russian		флогистон. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		flogiston. (various references)

Spanish		flogisto. (various references)

Swedish		flogiston. (various references)

Ukranian		флогістон. (various references)

Vietnamese		yếu tố cháy, nhiên liệu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Phlogiston

Derivations
	Words beginning with "phlogiston": phlogistons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Phlogiston" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phlogistic, phlogistin, phlogisto, phologiston. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Phlogiston"

Words rhyming with "phlogiston" (pronounced 'Phlo*gis"ton'): Acton, Barton, Baston, Batton, Boston, Burton, Carton, Caxton, Chiton, Croton, Homoioptoton, krypton, Melton, Monton, Moton, Mutton, Panton, Phyton, Piston, Plankton, Polyptoton, Protiston, Santon, Seton, Sexton, Teuton, Triton, unbutton. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Phlogiston

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-n-o-o-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: longship, photoing, shooling, shooting, soothing, spooling, stooling, stooping, toolings.
	-3 letters: gonophs, hooping, hooting, hosting, logions, longish, looping, loosing, looting, lotions, ologist, ooliths, options, photogs, photons, plights, plinths, plosion, poloist, pontils, poohing, pooling, posting, potions, shooing, sloping, soliton, soloing, sooting, stoping, tholing, tiglons, tooling, topsoil.
	-4 letters: gipons, glints, golosh, gonoph, holing, holist, hoping, hosing.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-n-o-o-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: phlogistons, phonologist.
	+2 letters: haptoglobins, nephrologist, phonologists, phrenologist.
	+3 letters: nephrologists, phrenologists.
	+4 letters: anthropologies, anthropologist.
	+5 letters: anthropologists, phenomenologist, phosphorylating.
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