firedamp 的定义
Mining.
- a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- the explosive mixture itself.
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- An example of a hydrocarbon or compound of carbon and hydrogen, is marsh gas (methane) or firedamp, CH4.
- As well might the vapours of the swamp be purified by filling it with the firedamp.
- Mr. Crotchet, jun.—I hope, Mr. Firedamp, you will let your friendship carry you a little closer into the jaws of the lion.
- Next to her is Mr. Firedamp, a very absurd person, who thinks that water is the evil principle.
- Proceeding to the edge of the moat, they fished up Mr. Firedamp, who had missed his way back, and tumbled in.