在人们的生产和生活活动中，燃烧是历史最悠久、最普遍，又是最奇妙的化学现象，在人们对燃烧有了正确认识之前，最有影响的燃烧理论要算得上燃素说了。燃素说最先由贝歇尔提出的，直至施塔尔才正式确立。他们认为物质能够燃烧，是因为其中含有一种“燃素”的特殊东西，物质燃 In people’s production and life activities, burning is the oldest, most common, and most wonderful chemical phenomenon. Before people have a correct understanding of burning, the most influential combustion theory must be said to be flaming. The phlogiston was first proposed by Beschel until it was formally established by Stall. They think that matter can be burned because it contains a special kind of “phlogiston.”