Ooops!

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Sorry totally forgot to post last night. I got a good 500 plus words on one of my stories (I might finish it yet... it was due last month). Plus 237 on my check in for a grand total of 755. It's a nice start to the month. I've also got my planned writing month. I'll be trying to hit a larger goal daily (516 words), but only over 18 days. Any other days I manage to write will be bonus days.

New month, new challenge - on to Flipflop_diva

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How the heck are we at September? I managed to get the reading done and write a couple of reviews (not sure how happy the authors would be with them though!) and now I need to set up all of my admin for September and get ready for a new month. Gah, I was just getting used to August!

Passing the challenge on to flipflop_diva xx

Word of the Day 09/03/23 Phlogiston

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Phlogiston (noun)
phlogiston [ floh-jis-ton, -tuhn ]

noun
1. a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.

WORDS RELATED TO PHLOGISTON
blaze, bonfire, heat, inferno, campfire, charring, coals, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flames, flare, glow, hearth, holocaust, incandescence, luminosity, oxidation

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ORIGIN: 1720–30; < New Latin: inflammability, noun use of Greek phlogistón, neuter of phlogistós inflammable, burnt up; see phlogistic

HOW TO USE PHLOGISTON IN A SENTENCE
Thus we say that the union of phlogiston to a particular kind of earth is the cause of its becoming a metal.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRY | JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

It dissolves many substances containing phlogiston, as iron, dry flesh, &c. and thereby forms a little inflammable air.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRY | JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

These facts shew that alkaline air consists chiefly of phlogiston.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRY | JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

The nitrous acid unites with phlogiston, alkalis, metallic substances, and calcareous earth.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRY | JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

It is less capable of concentration than the vitriolic or nitrous acids, perhaps from a more intimate union of phlogiston with it.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRY | JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.