What theory, now discredited, was put forward as a hypothesis for combustion?

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This was the phlogiston theory. Every combustible material contained phlogiston, and the process of burning drove it out. Phlogiston had negative weight, so that the increase of weight of materials burned in sealed containers was easily explained. A good theory. Pity it didn't really work. Mar 27 03, 11:31 PM

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