dephlogisticated air

短语

[医] 氧气

发音

UK /diːflə(ʊ)ˌd͡ʒɪstɪkeɪtid ˈɛə/
US /difləˌd͡ʒɪstəˌkeɪtid ˈɛɚ/
US /-floʊ-/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    oxygen gas, as originally thought to be air deprived of phlogiston (“the hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning”).

    历史 不可数 化学

词源

From dephlogisticated (“from which the phlogiston has been removed”) + air, coined by the English chemist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) in a 1775 article entitled “An Account of Further Discoveries in Air” published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: see the quotation.

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