Firedamp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FIREDAMP in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a combustible mine gas, mainly methane, that can explode upon contact with a supply of oxygen
• methane, especially as forming an explosive mixture with air in coal mines.
• explosive gas, composed mainly of methane, formed in mines
• a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a combustible gas

Words related to FIREDAMP

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Words that contain FIREDAMP

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How to use FIREDAMP in a sentence

• There it was, the dreaded fire-damp, in a layer above their heads.
• They were glad that they had been assured that there was no fire-damp here, for their leader lifted his lamp close to the roof.
• Under the same conditions as to firedamp, a charge of roburite was placed on a block of wood inside the boiler, totally unconfined except by a thin covering of coal dust.
• Precautions for Preventing Explosions of Fire-damp and Coal Dust.
• Again, a fire-damp explosion will usually occur at a time when the number of miners inside the mine is appreciably inferior to the number that would habitually be there.
• Fire-damp may be sometimes heard issuing from fiery seams with a peculiar hissing sound.
• It is noteworthy that mere red heat is insufficient in itself to ignite fire-damp, actual contact with flame being necessary for this purpose.
• Explosions which are always more or less attributable to the effects of coal-dust are generally considered, in the official statistics, to have been caused by fire-damp.

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