Sentences with word «phlogiston»

Combined with a supply of phlogiston of suitable negative weight, the vehicle could be made to fly.

I would go further: these explanations remind me of nothing so much as phlogiston or the luminiferous ether — other arbitrary inventions with no physical basis conjured up to explain observations that contradicted existing assumptions.

Would you have said the same thing about phlogiston, simply because it existed alongside calculus?

phlogiston says: June 9, 2010 at 12:42 am Here's the point that you are missing: phenomena like the PDO, AMO and SOI are cyclical.

Chemists also noticed that wood burning in a closed container didn't burn completely, and suggested that the air could only hold so much phlogiston.

Lavoisier thereby did away with the prevailing phlogiston theory and paved the way for the development of modern chemistry.

When 17th century chemists watched a piece of wood burst into flames, they believed they were watching the release of a mysterious substance they called phlogiston.

Eventually this will change and «climate change» will join phlogiston, Lysenko's theories and the four humors of the body in the lexicon of «settled science» that turned out not to be true at all.

Jbar says: June 12, 2010 at 7:20 am phlogiston - «there is a little - known quantum effect in very deep water» We are SO needing a reference for that.

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

Adults argue with each other about the respective merits of relativity theory, evolutionary biology, and the phlogiston theory, although they possess only a very partial knowledge of each.

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

Ptolemaic astronomy went on adding planetary epicycles to remove discrepancies; defenders of the phlogiston theory were driven to postulate negative chemical weights in order to maintain their paradigm.

The philanthropic polymath's main contributions to chemistry are covered in intriguing detail, including his radical rebuttal of the phlogiston theory and his transformation of the language of chemistry.

I dub it the phlogiston.

The theory explained why a heavy piece of wood was reduced to a light pile of ash: the substance had lost its phlogiston to the air.

Antoine Lavoisier eventually put an end to the phlogiston theory when he recognized and named oxygen, and declared that it was the key component in combustion.

Depending on what «side» one is on, climate science is either like evolution / heliocentrism / quantum physics / relativity or eugenics / phrenology / Ptolemaic cosmology / phlogiston.

Do you know who showed that phlogiston and the luminiferous aether didn't exist?

Knowing that there is no escape from THE FOUR LAWS WITHOUT WHICH NOTHING WHATSOEVER IN THE UNIVERSE THAT HAPPENS, HAPPENS — there simply is no change in temperature of anything without input of energy = work = quantity of heat, requiring accountancy in joule, and not that «phlogiston» of «feedback» without any energy dimension.

You could with equal justification ask me to explain where Ptolemy went wrong with his epicycle explanation of planetary motion, or Becher with his phlogiston theory of oxidation, or Newton, Maxwell, etc. who believed in an aether that carried light etc..

Other irrational beliefs, such as the phlogiston theory of burning or the Aristotelian cosmology of circular celestial motions, only did harm by delaying the careful examination of nature.

There is spot there for it, right next to phlogiston, another theory of warming that failed.

You don't talk about punishments, because we don't punish people who take the wrong scientific position — did we throw those phlogiston proponents in jail?

phlogiston - «there is a little - known quantum effect in very deep water» We are SO needing a reference for that.

One generation's «consensus» is the next generation's phlogiston.