Chemist no. 234 of 350 · Early/Alchemy
Georg Ernst Stahl
1659-1734Germany
Phlogiston theory
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Georg Ernst Stahl and Phlogiston: The Wrong Theory That Built Modern Chemistry
Understand Stahl's phlogiston theory: how it explained burning and rusting, why it lasted a century, and how Lavoisier's oxygen theory replaced it.
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Life of Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734): German physician-chemist, professor at Halle, royal physician in Berlin, and architect of the phlogiston theory.
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