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dephlogisticate

Dephlogisticate vs Dephlogisticated - What's the difference?

dephlogisticate | dephlogisticated |


As verbs the difference between dephlogisticate and dephlogisticated

is that dephlogisticate is to take away the phlogiston, ie ability to burn, which is now understood to be chemically impossible while dephlogisticated is (dephlogisticate).

As an adjective dephlogisticated is

(obsolete|chemistry) from which the phlogiston has been removed.