Word: firedamp
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Firedamp is a gas given oft by coal when freshly exposed to the atmosphere, which, when mixed with from four to twelve times its volume of air, is explosive. A common name for it is marsh gas; in substance, it is carbureted hydrogen, oxygen...