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| Title: | Phlogiston: The rise and fall of a theory |
| Authors: | Wisniak, Jaime |
| Keywords: | Phlogiston
Lavoisier theory
mass conservation |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2004 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | The phlogiston theory was born around 1700
and lasted for about one hundred years. It provided for the first time a
unifying approach to widely different chemical and physical phenomena and as
such was adopted by the most famous European scientists, particularly the
French ones. Its demise came with Lavoisier’s new insights into the phenomena
of chemical reactions in general and combustion in particular, as well as about
the composition of air. Lavoisier’s results disproved the phlogiston theory and
established the applicability of the principle of mass conservation to chemical
reactions. |
| Page(s): | 732-743 |
| ISSN: | 0975-0991 (Online); 0971-457X (Print) |
| Source: | IJCT Vol.11(5) [September 2004]
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