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Firedamp - Wikipedia
Firedamp is any flammable gas found in coal mines, typically coalbed methane. [1] It is particularly found in areas where the coal is bituminous. en.wikipedia.org
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FIREDAMP Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of FIREDAMP is a combustible mine gas that consists chiefly of methane; also : the explosive mixture of this gas with air. www.merriam-webster.com
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The life-saving lamp: Humphry Davy's fight against firedamp
Firedamp is a term for flammable gases (commonly methane) found in mines. The gases would leak from coal-bearing rocks and spread to the areas ... www.rigb.org
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fire-damp
ˈfire-damp [See damp n.] A miner's term for carburetted hydrogen or marsh-gas, which is given off by coal and is explosive when mixed in certain proportions with atmospheric air.1677 Phil. Trans. XII. 895 The Fire-damp did by little and little begin..to appear in crevisses and slits of the Cole. 171... Oxford English Dictionary
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FIREDAMP Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Firedamp definition: a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain ... www.dictionary.com
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Firedamp | gas - Britannica
Firedamp is a gas that occurs naturally in coal seams. The gas is nearly always methane (CH 4 ) and is highly inflammable and explosive when present in the air. www.britannica.com
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Firedamp - Healey Hero
Firedamp is a highly flammable gas, it burns with a pale blue non-luminous flame,and is explosive over the range 5.5% to 14.6%, exploding with maximum violence ... www.healeyhero.co.uk
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firedamp - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(mining) A flammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air. Derived terms. edit · firedamp alarm · firedamp detector ... en.wiktionary.org
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The Most Dangerous Gases In Mining - Chart Industries
White damp; Stinkdamp. Firedamp - Methane Gas (CH4). Firedamp is a mining term for a set of explosive gases found in mines ... www.chartindustries.com
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Fire damp - Main glossary - About Tunnelling - ITA-AITES
Fire damp - Methane (CH4) - Also called explosive gas or marsh gas. It may be encoutered in coal regions; often is associated with shales; and occurs in... tunnel.ita-aites.org
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carburetted
carburetted, -eted, ppl. a. Chem. (ˈkɑːbjʊəˌrɛtɪd) [f. prec. + -ed.] Combined with carbon, as in carburetted air, air which has been impregnated with fine particles of hydrocarbon, and which provides the power by which petrol engines are driven; carburetted hydrogen, the ‘fire-damp’ of miners, and c... Oxford English Dictionary
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Kinetite
A report of the French commission on the use of explosives in the presence of fire-damp in mines concluded that "The presence of chlorate of potash makes wikipedia.org
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damp
damp/dæmp; dæmp/ adj(-er, -est)1 not completely dry; slightly wet 不完全乾燥的; 潮湿的: damp clothes 潮湿的衣服 a damp surface 潮湿的表面 Don't sleep between damp sheets. 睡觉时不要用潮湿的被褥.2 (idm 习语) a damp `squib (infml 口) event, etc that is much less impressive than expected 未达预期效果的事等 The party was a bit of a damp squib. ... 牛津英汉双解词典
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John Buddle
the introduction of the miners safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy being involved in the earliest discussions with Davy in August 1815 and providing "fire-damp I said to those around me: 'We have at last subdued this monster [fire-damp].'" wikipedia.org
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marsh gas
marsh gas Light carburetted hydrogen, CH4, found in coal-mines and about stagnant pools. (Cf. fire-damp.)1848 Fownes Elem. Chem. 189 Marsh-gas. 1881 19th Cent. No. 48. 245 Light carburetted hydrogen, or marsh gas,..is the cause of explosions in collieries. Oxford English Dictionary
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