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Forbrændingsteori, often translated as "combustion theory," refers to historical scientific explanations for the process of burning. The most prominent of these was the phlogiston theory, developed by Johann Joachim Becher and later refined by Georg Ernst Stahl. This theory proposed that combustible materials contained a substance called phlogiston, which was released during burning. The ash or residue left behind was considered dephlogisticated. Proponents of this theory observed that burning stopped in a closed container as the air became saturated with phlogiston, or "phlogisticated air."

The phlogiston theory faced challenges as scientists began to investigate the role of air in combustion more closely. Antoine Lavoisier's experiments in the late 18th century were crucial in disproving phlogiston. He demonstrated that burning was actually a process of combining with a component of air, which he named oxygen. Lavoisier's quantitative experiments showed that the mass of the substance consumed in burning was gained by the air, and that a product of combustion, like water, was formed from the elements involved. This understanding, based on conservation of mass and chemical reactions, replaced the forbrændingsteori of phlogiston with the modern theory of oxidation.