Sentences with phrase «as phlogiston»

«Greenhouse» gases are as invalid as phlogiston.

Of course there is negative heat — inverted caloric — just as phlogiston has negative weight.

Not exact matches

I swallowed a large dose of empty philosophy as a child and it has damaged my phlogiston.

From a historical perspective, no system as complex as science was cracked by man in as little as 30 years, but it is not unusual that people try to declare that the debate is over (The phlogiston theory of combustion is settled science!)