firedamp in English

noun
1
methane, especially as forming an explosive mixture with air in coal mines.
The land, off Newhill Road in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, is one of the worst areas in the country to be affected by methane gas - known by miners as firedamp - leaching through the ground from disused mine workings.

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1. Working must proceed taking account of firedamp emission.

2. Afterdamp is similar to these topics: Safety lamp, Firedamp, Contraband (coal mine) and more

3. Methane is inflammable explosion hazard gas as the basis of mash gas, firedamp and rock gas.

4. It was subsequently found that there had been a firedamp explosion, which had lighted three canisters of Bobbinite

5. 1. Afterdamp - a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine

6. Afterdamp – [n] – a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a …

7. Afterdamp (usually uncountable, plural Afterdamps) Suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp, consisting of nitrogen, carbon …

8. 8 The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use.

9. Afterdamp, aftergases [ The mix(ture) of gas remaining in a coal mine after an explosion of firedamp or after a fire] Schwaden m, Nachschwaden

10. A toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine Familiarity information: Afterdamp used …

11. Afterdamp is the toxic mixture of gases left in a mine following an explosion caused by firedamp, which itself can initiate a much larger explosion of coal dust

12. Medical Definition of Afterdamp : a toxic gas mixture remaining after an explosion of firedamp in mines and consisting principally of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen Learn More about Afterdamp

13. Afterdamp is the toxic mixture of gases left in a mine following an explosion caused by firedamp, which itself can initiate a much larger explosion of coal dust

14. Afterdamp a poisonous mixture of gases containing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen formed after the explosion of firedamp in coal mines Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 Want to thank TFD for its existence?

15. Afterdamp is the toxic mixture of gases left in a mine following an explosion caused by firedamp, which itself can initiate a much larger explosion of coal dust.It consists of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen

16. Afterdamp: 1 n a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine Type of: gas a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely

17. The Oaks Colliery explosion was a British mining disaster which occurred on 12 December 1866, killing 361 miners and rescuers at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire.The disaster centred upon a series of explosions caused by firedamp, which ripped through the underground workings.It is the worst mining accident in England and the second worst