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phlogiston

Hypothetical substance formerly believed to have been produced during combustion. The substance, originally named terra pinguis (‘fatty earth’) by the German chemist Johann Joachim Becher in 1669, was renamed by Georg Stahl at the beginning of the 18th century. The phlogiston theory was replaced by the theory of oxygen gain and loss, first enunciated by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
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