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Definition of Firedamps
1. firedamp [n] - See also: firedamp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firedamps
Literary usage of Firedamps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Volcanoes: Including Submarine Volcanoes, and Other by Nicolas Ordinaire, [Claude Nicolas] Ordinaire, Robert Charles Dallas (1801)
"IV. There are no volcanoes in plains. Of fires in mines. Of the fires called
firedamps ... firedamps ..."
2. The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story by Joseph Story (1852)
"It has secured the lives of thousands by its wonderful safety-lamps, which prevent
explosions from the invisible, but fatal firedamps of mines. ..."
3. The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of by Joseph Story (1835)
"It has secured the lives of thousands by its wonderful safety lamps, which prevent
explosions from the invisible, but fatal firedamps of mines. ..."
4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1863)
"CC14 170° " In relation to these bodies it is important to note the following
facts: The first, marsh gas, known also as the firedamps of coal mines, ..."
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