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dephlogisticated air
noun (-, sg=dephlogisticated air)
  1. (context, chemistry, obsolete) oxygen, Oxygen.
    • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 30:
    • :Priestley never swayed from his firm conviction in the phlogiston theory as long as he lived, and he called his new gas "".
     
 
  

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