Usually means: Oxygen, once called by chemists.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (dephlogisticated air)

noun:  (chemistry, historical) oxygen gas, as originally thought to be air deprived of phlogiston (“the hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning”).

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