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He invented really the idea of elements-- particles which couldn't be broken down any further.He got rid of the idea of phlogiston that somehow there was a substance in every chemical, which when it was burned, was lost.He got rid of the idea altogether.
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The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. Note: This was supposed to be united with combustible (phlogisticated) bodies and to be separated from incombustible (dephlogisticated) bodies, the phenomena of flame and burning being the escape of phlogiston.