Does this mean a science fiction story cannot be set in a fantasy universe where the theory of phlogiston is true?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author vs. Critic - A Fairy Tale] Reference

Stahl, the author of this theory, asserted that there is a principle of inflammability, to which he gave the name phlogiston, having the quality of uniting with substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference

With precipitated indigo, the orpiment doesn't create changes, Bergman continued, because the union of phlogiston is too strong — you need the heat and the alkali to relax it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

It is the so-called phlogiston-theory first proposed by the chemist Stahl (1660-1734).    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Priestley succeeded in removing from air, so he thought, the substance called phlogiston which was thought to be what put fires out, and dubbed his.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference

This was a forerunner of the phlogiston theory (1723), which claimed, before the discovery of oxygen, that a nonexistent chemical called phlogiston was released during combustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [1669] Reference

To this heat-substance the name 'phlogiston' was given.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Georg Stahl, for instance, renounced alchemy but then explained fire by proposing that a fanciful substance called "phlogiston" infused all combustible objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference

Coal, for example, was thought to be very rich in phlogiston.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

How about alchemy, or phlogiston, or phrenology, or astrology?.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Tis the Season for Tenure Flaps] Reference

But how is such a restoration of phlogiston to be accomplished?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

What is the meaning of the following words? phlogiston, ozone, phosphorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Considerations on the doctrine of phlogiston, and the decomposition of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Large Collection of Information on mentioned Authors in the Inacubula Part II] Reference

Oxygen is gained when an object burns (or rusts), phlogiston was said to be lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of Neuroscience] Reference

"I don't think that I do, " I said, trying to recall what on earth phlogiston was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

So they are wrong from scratch-as clever and as wrong as phlogiston chemists. \par.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Enough For Love]

The principle of phlogiston was more tangible, and more readily used, than the Salt, Sulphur, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Being a believer in the phlogiston theory, however, he failed to interpret his results correctly.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

As such, it is comparable to alchemy and phlogiston theory, and ought to suffer a comparable fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Representation] Reference

If the phlogiston could be restored in any way, the substance would then become combustible again.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

One substance was thought to be more combustible than another because it contained more phlogiston.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Containing an examination of Dr. Priestley's considerations on the doctrine of phlogiston, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Large Collection of Information on mentioned Authors in the Inacubula Part II] Reference

Now suppose them to sweat in those confined quarters their fat away, their phlogiston, their caloric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

The breathing of animals and the burning of substances were supposed to load the atmosphere with phlogiston.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The theory of phlogiston was extraordinarily simple, compared with the alchemical vagaries which preceded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The protean principle of phlogiston was always at hand, and, by skilful management, was ready to adapt itself to any facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Yet in their day, phlogiston and the Ptolemaic view of the Universe were as respectable as they later turned out to be wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Have not the natures of things been explained by imaginary entities, such as life or phlogiston, which exist in the mind only?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timaeus] Reference

It is a task for metaphysicians to decide the best way that we should speak of the status of the property of being phlogiston, say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Anti-Realism] Reference

Like the proponents of vitalism or phlogiston theory, we may be blind to the failings of folk psychology until an alternative account is in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliminative Materialism] Reference

We need to remember the various discarded toys of science - the humours, the four elements, phlogiston, the ether and, more recently, protoplasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [McEwan On A Scientific Literary Tradition] Reference

It would be scientifically unethical to give it any more respect than an unobservable, untestable, unmodelable ether or a phlogiston, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Favorite Holiday Treat? Richard Dawkins] Reference

Looking back, we cannot think of phlogiston as a substance, or as a thing, in the modern meanings of these terms as they are used in natural science.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The metals, for instance, were said to be composed of phlogiston and an earthy principle or element, which was somewhat different in different metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

As escaping, or free, phlogiston was called fire, or flame, so the phlogiston in a combustible substance was sometimes called combined fire, or flame in the state of combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference