phlogiston

supposed fire-like element contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion, according to superseded scientific theories of the 17th and 18th centuries
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phlogiston

Summary

phlogiston is a non-existent substance[1]. phlogiston draws 49 Wikipedia views per month (non_existent_substance category, ranking #3 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • phlogiston is credited with the discovery of Johann Joachim Becher[3].
  • phlogiston is credited with the discovery of Georg Ernst Stahl[4].
  • phlogiston's instance of is recorded as non-existent substance[5].
  • phlogiston's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85023004[6].
  • phlogiston's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00563764[7].
  • phlogiston's opposite of is recorded as oxygen[8].
  • phlogiston's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05z9p[9].
  • phlogiston's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1341619[10].
  • phlogiston's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0109462[11].
  • phlogiston's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[12].
  • phlogiston's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • phlogiston's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • phlogiston's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • phlogiston's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/phlogiston[16].
  • phlogiston's different from is recorded as phlogiston theory[17].
  • phlogiston's studied by is recorded as history of chemistry[18].
  • phlogiston's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4715654[19].
  • phlogiston's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as phlogistique[20].
  • phlogiston's Treccani ID is recorded as flogisto[21].
  • phlogiston's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as flogiston[22].
  • phlogiston's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 024188[23].
  • phlogiston's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • phlogiston's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i113658[25].
  • phlogiston's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 87155989[26].
  • phlogiston's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Phlogiston[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Johann Joachim Becher[3], a chemist[28], 1635–1682[29], of Prince-Bishopric of Speyer[30], specialised in chemistry[31] and Georg Ernst Stahl[4], a physician[32], 1659–1734[33], of Principality of Ansbach[34].

Why It Matters

phlogiston draws 49 Wikipedia views per month (non_existent_substance category, ranking #3 of 3).[2] phlogiston has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] phlogiston is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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