Associations to the word «Phlogistic»

Wiktionary

PHLOGISTIC, adjective. (chemistry) (physics) (obsolete) Pertaining to phlogiston.
PHLOGISTIC, adjective. (chemistry) (physics) (obsolete) Containing phlogiston.
PHLOGISTIC, adjective. Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne