"Phlogistication" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... experiments is that which I made with nitrous air itself which I had no idea of the possibility of reducing to a state fit for respiration by any process whatever, at the time of my former publication on this subject. This air, however, itself, without any previous phlogistication, is purified by agitation in water till it is diminished by fresh nitrous air, and ...
— Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air • Joseph Priestley |
