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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phlogiston /fləˈdʒɪst(ə)n, -ˈgɪst-/

▶noun a substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion.

– origin C18: mod. L., from Gk phlogizein ‘set on fire’.

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