phlogiston

Example Sentences

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These include: wishful thinking, hearsay, phlogiston, alchemy, divination, Magic 8 Ball, séance, witchcraft, fake news, sorcery, transmutation, quackery, ballyhoo, Ouija Board, smoke and mirrors and bigly, among others.

From Seattle Times

After over 30 years of “intellectual regress”, the study of booms and busts now reminds him of a lipstick-wearing pig or an obsolete scientific embarrassment like the phlogiston theory of fire.

From Economist

In macroeconomics the problem is especially bad: we’re better than chemistry was when it was still considering phlogiston but not as advanced as physics is, say, with nuclear reactions and decay.

From Forbes

Characters are equipped with a “lilium orb”, a piece of applied phlogiston which arrays bonuses to their character statistics along a spider-web pattern.

From Forbes

We have seen that the upholders of phlogiston believed that in the inflammable air of Cavendish they had at last succeeded in obtaining the long-sought-for phlogiston.

From Project Gutenberg