"[I]n his paper on , of 1766, he had represented this gas as itself phlogiston. He now experimented accordingly upon it, not as an individual combustible which would yield a certain product, but as the phlogiston... in all combustibles, and the product of whose combustion would represent the universal product of combustion."
January 1, 1970
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