інші переклади
флогистон |
phlogiston
|
приклади
Biologists used to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, chemists in phlogiston , physicists in absolute (pre-relativity) time.
According to the phlogiston theory, combustible materials contain a substance - phlogiston - that is emitted by the material as it burns.
For example, sun-centered astronomy replaced earth-centered, oxygen superseded phlogiston , and absolute space gave way to curved space.
And combustion, as they understood it, happened when phlogiston , a hypothetical earthlike substance characterized mainly by its combustibility, was removed from an object.
In the phlogiston theory, phlogiston is released during combustion, and in the oxygen theory, oxygen is absorbed during combustion.
Other