phlogisticated

English

Etymology

phlogisticate +‎ -ed

Adjective

phlogisticated (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, chemistry) Containing phlogiston.
   • 1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E. Ch. II. General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries, in The Life of the Hon^ble Henry Cavendish, p. 39.

     […] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston […] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.

Derived terms

• dephlogisticated
• phlogisticated air / phlogisticated gas

Related terms

• phlogisticate

Verb

phlogisticated

1. simple past and past participle of phlogisticate