phlogiston

A thing was inflammable if it contained phlogiston.

一样东西如果含有燃素，它就能燃烧。

Of or relating to phlogiston.

燃素的，有关燃素的

This hazy "phlogiston theory," this erroneous conception of burning, led chemistry along a completely false trail.

这个莫名其妙的“燃素论”，对燃烧做了错误的理解，把化学扯上了一条完全错误道路。

As a matter of fact, Priestley defended the phlogiston theory right up to his death.

事实上，普里斯特利捍卫这种燃素理论直到去世。

Most of us are realists about tables, chairs, mountains, and galaxies, but not about ghosts, witches, or phlogiston.

我们大多都是关于桌子、椅子、高山、银河系等的实在论者，但不是鬼、巫、燃素等的实在论者。

Noting its effectiveness in sparking combustion, he called the gas "dephlogisticated air," demonstrating his belief in phlogiston.

注意其有效性,他称气泡燃烧空气,“气”的燃素学说展示他的信仰。

When an everburning furnace is installed in a device that requires phlogiston, the device no longer requires a fuel source.

当一个需要补给燃料的设备被安装了永恒燃烧炉，该设备就不再需要燃料来源。

In this particular debate, I am on Prof Krugman's side, but I do not agree that Prof Ferguson's position represents a retreat to a phlogiston state of economics.

在这场特定的争论中，我站在克鲁格曼一边，但我不认为弗格森的立场是倒退到了经济学的燃素说。

Made by enchanting a phlogiston boiler to run purely on magic, an everburning furnace grants the same power as a boiler, without the need for refueling.

由一个迷人的完全使用魔法运行的燃料锅炉制成，永恒燃烧炉视作一个不需要补给燃料的锅炉。

States of mind and their properties are not theoretical posits like caloric, phlogiston, or the ether, but objects of direct experience (or better: experiences).

心灵事态和它们的属性不是理论设定，就如热质、燃素、以太等，而是直接体验的对象（或更好的：诸体验）。

Musgrave used Lakatos’s methodology of scientific research programmes as the method of reconstruction, and presented the process of how did oxygen theory supplant phlogiston theory afresh.

马斯葛雷夫依据拉氏的科学研究方案为重建方法，将燃素论到氧气理论的取代过程重新呈现。

A thing was inflammable if it contained phlogiston

一样东西如果含有燃素，它就能燃烧。

phlogiston theory and oxidation theory

燃素说与氧化说

Keywords fire;particle theory;phlogiston theory;dephlogisticated air;

火;微粒说;燃素说;去燃素空气;

Command of Scientific Mode of Thinking and Rise and Decline of Phlogiston Theory

从燃素说的兴衰看掌握科学思维方法

This hazy "phlogiston theory," this erroneous conception of burning, led chemistry along a completely false trail

这个莫名其妙的“燃素论”，对燃烧做了错误的理解，把化学扯上了一条完全错误道路。

(a) As has been mentioned, some postulated that phlogiston has negative weight (levity).

(a) 正如所提到的那样，某些燃素会减轻（轻率）的假定。

phlogiston theory

燃素说

phlogiston

n.燃素,热素