A burning question: ---------------------------- Phlogiston or no phlogiston, is it really true that a burning log does not release things? It certainly gets a lot smaller! --Dan Andy wrote: << There is a sense in which phlogiston exists, because the theory that things are flammable because they contain phlogiston, which is released by burning, exists. There is also a sense in which phlogiston does not exist, and the statement "there's no such thing as phlogiston; when things burn, they are combining with oxygen, not releasing something; phlogiston (the thing which is released when something is burned) does not exist" is a true statement.

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