phlogiston theory in a sentence

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1. Developed under Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl, phlogiston theory was an attempt to account for products of combustion.
2. The first strong evidence against phlogiston theory came from pneumatic chemists in Britain during the later half of the 18th century.
3. Experienced chemists who supported Stahl's phlogiston theory attempted to respond to the challenges suggested by Lavoisier and the newer chemists.
4. In doing so, phlogiston theory became more complicated and assumed too much, contributing to the overall demise of the theory.
5. He and Black were convinced of the validity of the phlogiston theory, so they explained their results in terms of it.
6. Although Priestley was busy defending phlogiston theory from the " new chemists ", most of what he published in Birmingham was theological.
7. Although the majority of his publications focused on defending phlogiston theory, he also did some original work on spontaneous generation and dreams.
8. Phlogiston theory did not have any experimental basis before Stahl worked with metals and various other substances in order separate phlogiston from them.
9. Eventually the oxygen-based theory of combustion drowned out the phlogiston theory and in the process created the basis of modern chemistry.
10. By the time he was a teenager, Scheele had learned the dominant theory of gases which in the 1770s was the phlogiston theory.